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How close your thought is to you, how close faith is to your heart, so close is God to you, and the more vivid and firm the thought of God, the more lively the faith and knowledge of one’s weakness and insignificance and the feeling of need for God, the closer He is. Or: as the air is close to the body, so close is God to the soul. For God, so to speak, is the mental air that all Angels, the souls of saints and the souls of living people, especially pious ones, breathe. You cannot live without God for a single minute and you really live in Him every minute: “In Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28) (1). God is a simple, most perfect Being, that is, the purest shrine, the purest good and truth; in order to be in unity with God, in order to be one spirit with Him (for we are from Him), it is necessary, by His grace, to acquire in ourselves the perfect simplicity of goodness, holiness and love. All the saints who are in heaven have been cleansed by the blood of the Son of God and the Holy Spirit and do not have a shadow of sin in themselves. This is why they themselves labored in this life, this is why they suffered in the flesh, in order to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit and create holy things in the fear of God, in order to unite forever with that all-blessed Being, whose being is holy. For this reason, even now, the Holy Church stands in the world with all its institutions, for this purpose the Divine services, the Sacraments, the rites, for this purpose the fasts, in order to purify and sanctify the children of God, for the sake of union with His all-blessed Being, glorified in the Trinity by the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (6). It is impossible for men to see God because they cannot endure His impregnable light, for man cannot see the face of God and remain alive (see Exodus 33:20); The ranks of angels, even the Cherubim and Seraphim closest to the throne of the Eternal, do not dare to look at Him. But Whom it was impossible to see in His pure, unapproachable Divinity, We saw Him in the clothing of human flesh: through the Most Pure Mother of God the Word of God, all-creating, all-powerful, appeared to men in the flesh. By magnifying Him with the Heavenly armies, we also please You, Lady (10). You might be interested in: