«All things turn to good to whomever loves God because God predisposes all things so that they can be a means of good for His saints. Even those which seem to the superficial ones to be a means of sorrow and danger of evil due to their nature, by being able with their essence to bring a soul to collapse, to doubt or to rebellion.
However, it is not the things in themselves that can bring to these consequences. It is the character not formed to both the moral and natural law, and it is the soul which is not formed to the divine law, that is, deprived of the good will of serving God in everything that He proposes, that which can make of the things predisposed by God for the purpose of good, a means of falling into imperfections or into more or less grave sins. If one were to think on the contrary, that is, that God predisposes things not for the purpose of good, one might as well say that even the predestination to grace is an evil because it often becomes the talent that was not made to bear fruit in the parable, so much so that the slothful servant, from the unjust judgement towards his master, has the same [master] then take the talent from him in order to give it to others more capable of making it bear fruit.
But is it perhaps God who prevents men, all men predestined to grace, from being able to use this treasure in a just manner and depending on what they are permitted to do? No. So much so that even to those who do not know of the true God, He places a natural law and conscience in their hearts so that they can then live in such a way as to belong, if not to the Body, to the soul of the mystical Body, and therefore, to be able to delight in the benefits of Grace.
God knows those who are, or those who were, or those who will be - and He has always known - those who will not leave the mysterious aids of God inert so that man can achieve his end. And He also knows they who were, are, or will be those who in a more or less complete manner transform themselves, or who transformed themselves, or who will transform themselves in the likeness and image of the Man-God by means of love and obedience to the voice of the conscience and to the dictates of the moral law.
Truly, on Judgement Day, one will see amongst those who will be on the right [side] of the Son of Man, many of those whom men judged as not elected to the Kingdom because they did not belong to the Church while on His left, there will be many, who for having been at least in appearance - for only God knows the truth of things - living members of the mystical Body, men had judged as certain co-heirs of Heaven. And the astonishment of those who had judged will be great, as well as that of the two categories of the judged.
And the elect through mysterious operations of God, seconded by their upright conscience, will say, "Why are we here if we did not know You nor serve You as You say, by feeding You, by giving You drink, and by receiving You and visiting You?
And the just Judge, who died in order to give eternal Life to all those of good will, will reply, "Because you have known Me without knowing it, and without knowing it, you have served Me through the love that was given to your neighbour. You have helped Me because even a sip of water given out of love to one who was thirsty has been love given to Me."
And the rejected will ask, "How can You close your Kingdom to us if we were yours?"
And He will reply, "As you closed your heart to the needs of your brothers, so I, too, close to you the doors of the Kingdom. That which you did not do to the least amongst you, you did not do to Me, and with greater gravity of sin because you knew of Me, of My Gospel and of the Law. Go, therefore, a long way away from Me, workers of iniquity, because he is my brother he who is like Me, and you, under the hypocritical mask, do not resemble Me for your being without Love which is my Nature."
This is where the resemblance lies: in love. The most perfect Love in the Firstborn amongst the brothers. A love that aspired to become the most perfect possible in the brothers of Christ in the flesh and in faith. Whoever does not live in love and does not practice works of love is not a brother of Christ who loved as far as dying for His brothers, and therefore, he is not His co-heir.
He has also called those predestined to glory. And those called have not remained nor do they remain deaf to His call, nor did they tire of following Him. But rather, with heroism, they followed and they follow behind His footprints along the steep path of perfection. Nor did they become dejected or do they dishearten if the love of election of the Lord was a series of trials and sufferings for them. Nor did they believe or do they believe to be less loved if God would permit that men and events would doggedly unleash themselves upon them. Nor did they become disheartened if the weakness of the flesh or a bending of the spirit made them fall or make them fall. Rather, knowing the One who has called them, His Love, His Mercy, they consider Him as their Father and Brother even in the hours of tempestual sorrow, and trusting in the infinite merits of Christ in whom they firmly believe or believed, they accomplished and accomplish their walk towards Heaven where the call had come.
No one can digress from this rule if he wishes to remain in the degree of glory for which God has predestined him. No one, however much he may be loved, can fall into quietism by saying, "After all, God wants me there and He will think about guiding me there." Each of you must operate in order to put the divine gifts to work and not leave them inactive.
Adam and Eve, who were also innocent, full of Grace and other gifts, squandered many treasures, and for centuries and centuries, they paid for their infidelity and for their foolish judgement, for, since they were so loved by God, there was no need for them to have many fears and absolute obedience.
Jesus, Man by birth of a Woman, and Mary, both like the first innocent Adam and Eve, full of gifts and most loved by the Father, were faithful custodians and active in using, with justice, the gifts received, and just as it would have occurred for all men if [Adam and Eve] had remained innocent and full of Grace, they [Jesus and Mary] did not possess corruption of the flesh, but with it joined to the soul without stain of any sort, they entered into the eternal Kingdom, to the complete glorification, without awaiting the end of the centuries in order to rejoice, together with the flesh, the perfect jubilation of those risen and glorified after the last Judgement.»