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LXXXI. Oraiiones per Spiritum ad Deum ascenduni.

LXXXI. Oraiiones per Spiritum ad Deum ascenduni.

When a person, through the gift of the Holy Spirit, inspires prayers in their heart, those prayers, expressed in purity, cannot be hidden but ascend before God. Chapter LXXXII: On the Psalms for the Dead. For when the lamentable voice of the prophets, through which they proclaimed God's justice and miracles, is uttered for the liberation from some bodily affliction, or for the rest of the souls of the departed, to the praise of God, it is pronounced for the necessity of the suffering, that they may receive help, since it is also first dictated through pain and sighs. God is the foundation of all these things, and He sustains them, because He is touched by them. A person is indeed greatly loved by God when they serve Him diligently. On almsgiving. Therefore, when a person offers alms from their own substance, which they hold before God, God remembers the sacrifice of Abraham, and just as He spared his son, He will also have mercy on those for whom the same person offers alms, according to their worthiness, because He delights in all these things, since He created man and gave him all good things, nor did He allow anything necessary for him to be lacking.

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Cum enim homo per donum Spiritus Sancti orationes in corde suo dictat, orationes illae, in puritale prolatae, celari non poterunt, sed ante Deum ascendunt.

LXXXII De psalmodia pro deftmciis.

Nam cum lamentabilis vox prophetarum, per quam justitiam et miracula Dei protulerunt, pro liberatione alicujus corporalis afflictionis, seu pro requie unimarum defunctorum ad laudem Dei pronuntiatur, necessitati dolentium, promeruerunt, subveni, ut quia etiam primum per dolorem et per suspiria dictata cst.

Et omnium istorum Deus fundamentum est, et ea suscipit, quoniam in ipsis tangilur.

Homo nempe a Deo valde amatur, cum ei studiose servierit.

LXXXIIL De eleemosyna.

Unde etiam cum homo de substantia sua, quam coram possidet Deo, eleemosynam ofFert, Deus sacrificii Abrahae recordatur, et ut filio ejus pepercit, sic et illis pro quibus idem homo eieemosinam offert, secundum quod digni sunt, parcet, quoniam in his omnibus delectatur, quia ipse hominem creavit, et omnia bona ei dedit, nec aliquid necessitati ipsius congruum ei deesse permisit.

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