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Choose a topic from Part 1:

• God and His Attributes
• The Blessed Trinity
• Creation
• The Angels
• The Days of Creation
  • 65. The Creation of Bodies
  • 66. The Order of Bodily Creation
  • 67. Light: Work of the First Day of Creation
  • 68. Work of the Second Day of Creation
  • 69. Work of the Third Day of Creation
  • 70. Work of the Fourth Day of Creation
  • 71. Work of the Fifth Day of Creation
  • 72. Work of the Sixth Day of Creation
  • 73. The Seventh Day
  • 74. Meaning of the Seven Days
• Man
• The Divine Government

71. Work of the Fifth Day of Creation

1. The work of the fifth day was the production of fowls and fishes and things that creep in the waters. As the fourth day sees the firmament adorned with light-giving bodies, the fifth day sees the lower elements of air and water made fruitful with living things.

"Try to turn your heart from the love of things visible and bring yourself to things invisible. For they who follow their own evil passions stain their consciences and lose the grace of God. "
Thomas á Kempis

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"For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God?"
Thomas á Kempis

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"The Lord has always revealed to mortals the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit, but now that the face of evil bares itself more and more, so does the Lord bare his treasures more."
St John of the Cross, OCD - Doctor of the Church

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