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		<title>CIAY: Day 51</title>
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Paragraph 5. Heaven and Earth (cont’d)
In Brief
(350) Angels are spiritual creatures who glorify God without ceasing and who serve his saving plans for other creatures: &#8220;The angels work together for the benefit of us all&#8221; (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 114, 3, ad 3).
(351) The angels surround Christ their Lord. They serve him especially in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 50</title>
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II. The Visible World (cont’d)
(343) Man is the summit of the Creator&#8217;s work, as the inspired account expresses by clearly distinguishing the creation of man from that of the other creatures.
(344) There is a solidarity among all creatures arising from the fact that all have the same Creator and are all ordered to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 49</title>
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I. The Angels
The angels in the life of the Church (cont’d)
(336) From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. &#8220;Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.&#8221; Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 48</title>
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I. The Angels (cont’d)
Who are they?
(329) St. Augustine says: &#8220;&#8216;Angel&#8217; is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is ‘spirit&#8217;; if you seek the name of their office, it is ‘angel&#8217;: from what they are, ‘spirit,&#8217; from what they do, ‘angel.&#8217;&#8221; With their whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Immigration Law Set to Take Effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, I posted this on the Catholic Vote Action blog:

This Thursday, July 29th, the controversial Arizona immigration law is set to take effect. While the majority of Americans agree with the passage and enactment of this law, the Church has opposed it from the beginning.
In the most recent show of opposition, Bishop Gerald Kicanas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/arizona-immigration-law-set-to-take-effect/</link>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 47</title>
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Paragraph 4. The Creator (cont’d)
In Brief
(322) Christ invites us to filial trust in the providence of our heavenly Father (cf. Mt 6:26-34), and St. Peter the apostle repeats: &#8220;Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you&#8221; (1 Pet 5:7; cf. Ps 55:23).
(323) Divine providence works also through the actions of creatures. To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/ciay-day-47/</link>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 46</title>
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Paragraph 4. The Creator (cont’d)
In Brief
(315) In the creation of the world and of man, God gave the first and universal witness to his almighty love and his wisdom, the first proclamation of the &#8220;plan of his loving goodness,&#8221; which finds its goal in the new creation in Christ.
(316) Though the work of creation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 45</title>
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V. God Carries out His Plan: Divine Providence (cont’d)
(308) The truth that God is at work in all the actions of his creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator. God is the first cause who operates in and through secondary causes: &#8220;For God is at work in you, both to will and to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/ciay-day-45/</link>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 44</title>
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IV. The Mystery of Creation (cont’d)
God upholds and sustains creation
(301) With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end. Recognizing this utter dependence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/ciay-day-44/</link>
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		<title>Joining Catholic Vote Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of months, as I have transitioned out of the seminary, the blog has taken on a new approach, as many of you have witnessed. Three years ago, when I began that awesome journey of faith as a seminarian, the blog&#8217;s purpose was to keep my family, friends and supporters up-to-date on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/joining-catholic-vote-action/</link>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 43</title>
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III. &#8220;The World Was Created for the Glory of God (cont’d)
(294) The glory of God consists in the realization of this manifestation and communication of his goodness, for which the world was created. God made us &#8220;to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/ciay-day-43/</link>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 42</title>
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I. Catechesis on Creation (cont’d)
(287) The truth about creation is so important for all of human life that God in his tenderness wanted to reveal to his People everything that is salutary to know on the subject. Beyond the natural knowledge that every man can have of the Creator, God progressively revealed to Israel the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/ciay-day-42/</link>
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		<title>CIAY: Day 41</title>
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Paragraph 4. The Creator (cont&#8217;d)
(280) Creation is the foundation of &#8220;all God&#8217;s saving plans,&#8221; the &#8220;beginning of the history of salvation&#8221; that culminates in Christ. Conversely, the mystery of Christ casts conclusive light on the mystery of creation and reveals the end for which &#8220;in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth&#8221;: from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/ciay-day-41/</link>
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		<title>Webster for Florida 8th</title>
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Over the last several weeks, campaign ads for the upcoming November elections have begun to increase, especially in high priority, battleground districts. Florida’s 8th Congressional District is one such district. Jockeying for the seat in the House of Representatives are one outspoken, ultra-liberal Democrat, Alan Grayson, and a handful of conservative Republican hopefuls. Not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thomaspringle.com/2010/07/webster-for-florida-8th/</link>
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		<title>Special Congratulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief interruption in the usual posts to offer congratulations to Rocco Palmo whose blog, Whispers in the Loggia, reached an astonishing 15,000,000+ viewers this week.
In my book, Rocco was one of the founding fathers, if you will, of the Catholic blogging movement. Without him and a host of others, the Catholic presence on the [...]]]></description>
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