Providence

Our Lady of Divine Providence.

God gives us His help, hour by hour, if we remain humble and faithful^[1]

Providence: from Latin providere, to foresee, to provide Act by which God, in His Wisdom, leads all His creatures towards the perfection to which He has called them.^[2]

In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"

If God provided for everything, He would be committing theft against His friends. He would deprive them of the power to be merciful and to obey consequently the commandment of love.^[3]
Providence provides food for the crowd that followed Jesus, as He had announced.^[4]
God gives us His help, hour by hour, if we remain humble and faithful.^[5]
"Let the good God do it, and you will see how He manages all things well."^[6]
You must only seek, and let it be the first of your cares, the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all the rest will be given to you in addition.^[7] and ^[8]
God would not exist if Providence failed His sons.^[9]
The one who imposed His will on me and whom I serve with a trusting love will give me His help for this hour (The Passion). To Him (Jesus), to me (Mary)... because the Father cannot impose a will too strong for the strengths of man... and He always helps...^[10]
Where there is faith in Me, Providence is present.^[11]
Do not doubt the goodness and the power of God. Whatever happens, He will intervene for your Good and mine, and for the good of many.^[12]
And, as for the flesh, do not imitate the people of the world who never stop trembling for their tomorrow, out of fear that they will lack the superfluous, that illness will come, that death will come, that their Enemies could harm them, and so forth.
God knows what you need. Therefore, do not fear for your tomorrow. Free yourself from fears, heavier than the chains of galley slaves. Do not worry about your life, nor about food, nor about drink, nor about clothing.
The life of the spirit is more than that of the body, and the body is more than clothing, for it is through the body and not through clothing that you live, and by the mortification of the body you help the Spirit to obtain eternal life. God knows how long He will leave your Soul in your body, and until that moment, He will give you what you need.
And can you think that God, who takes care of the lilies of the valleys and makes them grow and clothe them with a garment more beautiful than Solomon ever had, without them doing any work other than perfuming the air, do you believe He could forget you even for clothing? (...)
But do not be people of little faith. You will always have what you need. Do not worry like the people of the world who trouble themselves to provide for their pleasures.
You have your Father who knows what you need. You must only seek, and let it be the first of your cares, the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all the rest will be given to you in addition.^[13]

In the fundamental Christian texts

In the Bible

I am sure I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord.^[14]

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

The creation did not come out fully finished from the hands of the Creator.^[15]
The solicitude of divine Providence is concrete and immediate, it takes care of everything, from the smallest things to the great events of the world and history.^[16]
Jesus asks for filial abandonment to the Providence of the heavenly Father who takes care of the smallest needs of His children.^[17]
God is the sovereign Master of His plan. But for the realization of His design, God also uses the cooperation of creatures.^[18]
God thus gives men to be intelligent and free causes to complete the work of Creation.^[19]
God acts in all the acts of His creatures. He is the first cause who operates in and by secondary causes.^[20]
If God created an ordered and good world and takes care of all His creatures, why does evil exist?^[21]
God freely wanted to create a world "in a state of journeying" toward its ultimate perfection.^[22]
Angels and men, intelligent and free creatures, must walk toward their ultimate destiny by free choice and preferably love. They can therefore go astray.^[23]
God, in His all-powerful Providence, can draw a Good from the consequences of an evil.^[24]
"All things work together for good for those who love God."^[25]
God is the Master of the world and of history, but the ways of His Providence are often unknown to us.^[26]
In the image of the Creator "who loves all that exists," man and Woman are called to participate in the divine Providence toward other creatures.^[27]
The action of Satan is permitted by divine Providence which with strength and gentleness directs the history of man and the world.^[28]
At the Last Judgment we will know the ultimate meaning of the whole work of creation and of the whole economy of salvation, and we will understand the admirable ways in which His Providence guided everything toward its ultimate end.^[29]
God entrusts each creature with the functions it is capable of exercising, according to the capacities of its own nature.^[30]
Every law finds in eternal law its primary and ultimate truth. The law is declared and established by reason as a participation in the Providence of the living God, Creator and Redeemer of all.^[31]
Ownership of a good makes its holder an administrator of Providence.^[32]
Abandonment to the Providence of the Heavenly Father frees from the anxiety of the tomorrow.^[33]
The revelation of prayer teaches us that faith rests on the action of God in history.^[34]
To the one who possesses God, nothing is lacking, if he himself does not fail God.^[35]

Notes and references

[1] EMV 207

[2] Catholic Church of France, Glossary

[3] EMV 89

[4] EMV 175

[5] EMV 207

[6] EMV 208

[7] Luke 12:22-31

[8] EMV 276

[9] EMV 298

[10] EMV 436

[11] EMV 441

[12] EMV 485

[13] EMV 276.8

[14] Psalm 27:13-14

[15] CEC 302

[16] CEC 303

[17] CEC 305

[18] CEC 306

[19] CEC 307

[20] CEC 308

[21] CEC 309

[22] CEC 310

[23] CEC 311

[24] CEC 312

[25] CEC 313

[26] CEC 314

[27] CEC 373

[28] CEC 395

[29] CEC 1040

[30] CEC 1884

[31] CEC 1951

[32] CEC 2404

[33] CEC 2547

[34] CEC 2738

[35] CEC 2830

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