«"Creation was subjected to futility" says Paul. I have explained how the immeasurable vanity of wanting to be like God was that which caused the Sin and its consequences. All of creation, through the fault of the foolish vanity of man, who was the masterpiece of creation, became acquainted with the ugliness of the Sin and of sins against God and against one's neighbour. And more than any other inferior creature of the creation, man was acquainted with it, the superior creature, being the sole creature with a reasoning nature, free, intellectual, capable not only of physical and even intellectual development, in the human sense of the word, but of spiritual development, being he, man, according to the just opinions of the great theologian (Saint Augustine): one infinite in power, a power which only God can fill.
It is truly like this. And it has been like this from the moment man has existed, nor could the Sin, though strongly invalidating this power, have deprived man of these two qualities which God had placed in him when creating him.
In the same primigenial couple, after the sorrow for the death of AbeI dissipated the foolish fumes of pride which up to that moment had kept man enslaved to the suggestions of the eternal Rebel, this unconscious power was reawakened under the impact of the sin and of the punishment. And man, lifting up his gaze towards Heaven [which he hadl lost, searching for He who had justly driven him out, felt once again that only God could comfort his sorrow, filt his desire of love, and sustain his moral strengths with eternal hopes and with the promise which had descended into Adam together with the condemnation, that his seducer would have been conquered and that the freedom from his infamous anguish, that is, the restitution of the state of Grace, and therefore, of the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven, would have come by means of the Woman, who being the Virgin, would have given birth to the Emmanuel, the Saviour and Redeemer.
And so, therefore, the creation, subjected to futility and one could say, impeded to progress towards its final perfection: that of the spirit always more triumphant upon matter, resumed its walk towards the light, towards on high, towards God, its End to whom it had turned its back by descending down the slope which not only brings from the terrestrial Paradise to Earth, but from it towards the kingdoms of darkness and sin.
It is true, Grace was missing, sun of the soul which because of her [Grace], she [the soul] sees distinctly, which because of her [Grace], virtues germinate and grow in perfection; however, the conscience and its voice remained: the paternal call of God to Himself and to the ultimate end; that is, there remained in man, all one with the spiritual soul and joined to it, that sufficient minimum enabling him to aim towards his end, that terrain fit to receive, up to the re-integration of Grace, those lights which God had always generously given to every man no matter how guilty he may be, and enabling him to keep that knowledge and love of God alive which man had received from the Same together with life and that were innate in him.
Paul writes - and it is a misunderstood phrase either due to incapacity to understand or wanting to misunderstand with the purpose of discouraging men from pursuing the Good in order to enjoy Heaven since there is no salvation for man with a sinful tendency; a heretical theory born from the branches that separated themselves from the trunk of the mystical Vine, from the rebellious members who have detached themselves from the mystical Body; a profession against the divine Love who created by predestinating to Grace and to Glory and not for damnation, and which the teaching Church justly condemns - Paul writes, "Subjected to futility not through her own wilI, but of He who subjected it with the hope that she too can be freed from the servitude of cormption in order to take part in the glorious liberty of the children of God."
Now many, the sacrilegious, heretics, deniers of the most important attribute of God, satans because they are haters of love and of the truth, take this phrase as a basis for their own pseudo-religion and say, "Do you see who wanted your fall, your weaknesses, your ruin? Him, the one who you call "Father".
No. To this horrendous blasphemy, to this insinuation of the most subtle diabolical astuteness, I reply. And I reply thus.
God put man to the test in order to confirm him in Grace. And this was for those who knew how to be just men even after one or more momentary falls, purified by a sincere repentance and by ardent charity. While for the rebellious Angels whose angelical nature was superior to that of humans - so much that it is said of Christ, "You have made him a little lower than the angels" - there was neither a promise of forgiveness for them, nor immutability of however much was fit in them to be brought back to their original beatific condition through perfect contrition and perfect love, for man, there was all this and even more: the voices of the Patriarchs and Prophets reconfirming the promise of the Redeemer contained in the Book of Genesis, the revelations of God through His manifestations and inspirations to the Patriarchs, to Moses - the liberator and legislator of the Hebrew people - to Joshua, to the Prophets, and culminating in the prodigy of the donation, teachings and immolation of the Son of God.
Never did God take away the predestination to Grace for all men. Never. Because God is not fickle in His wills, and that which He wills once, He wills forever, for however much depends on His will. Never. For as far as God did not act as He had acted by "hoping", as it is inappropriately written, but by "knowing". God ignores nothing. Therefore, hoping is denied to Him. Whoever ignores the future of everything and of individuals, hopes. Not one who, like God, ignores nothing and knows everything, from His Eternity to the destiny of everyone.
Therefore, it is to be said and believed that God subjected creation to the test, in its most perfect creature, fully knowing that it would have sinned with pride and rebellion due to the vanity of wanting to become like God, yet wanting to give it the measureless measure of His love for men.
Before the creation of man, and therefore of the trial, God had already established the Means with which man would have been freed at the start from the servitude of corruption and then given the joy of the glorious liberty of the children of God, having attained his share of the inheritance in the celestial Kingdom. Therefore, God did not want your fall, nor your weaknesses, nor your ruin. But, by wanting to give to Himself a population of children, He created you, and knowing that you would not have persevered in Grace, even before creating you, He preordained the most Holy Means, none holier and more powerful, in order to save you and give you your share in His Kingdom.
Therefore, even here, one can say that the infinite and insatiable Love of God for men, His adoptive children, shines in all its truth.»