DAILY CONTEMPLATION

July 26, 2026 ~ Epep 19, 1742

In the beginning wickedness did not exist… But men later on began to
contrive it and to elaborate it to their own hurt.
Whence also they devised the invention of idols, treating what was not as though it were.
For God, Maker of all and King of all, that has His Being beyond all substance and human discovery,
inasmuch as He is good and exceeding noble, made, through His own Word, our Savior Jesus Christ,
the human race after His own image,
and constituted man able to see and know realities by means of this assimilation to Himself,
giving him also a conception and knowledge even of His own eternity,
in order that, preserving his nature intact, he might not ever either depart from his idea of God,
nor recoil from the communion of the holy ones;
but having the grace of Him that gave it,
having also God’s own power from the Word of the Father,
he might rejoice and have fellowship with the Deity,
living the life of immortality unharmed and truly blessed.
St. Athanasius