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his holy Church the Holy Ghost, to fifl it with his gifts
and his wisdom, promising that He should guide and
govern it always without error free from uncertainty and
danger (John 15, 26). He enriched it with all the mer
its of his Life, Passion and Death,, applying them by
means of the Sacraments, furnishing all that was neces
sary for men from their birth to their death for rigang
them from their sins, for persevering in grace, for de
fending themselves frff""5t
the demons and vanquish
ing them by the arms of his Church, for crushing their
own natural passions ; and at the same time He instituted
fit and apt ministers for securing to his faithful all these
blessings. In the Church militant He communicates
familiarly with all the holy souls ; He makes them partici
pants in ills lWM*n and secret favors ;
He works wonders
and miracles for them, and when it is for his glory, as
sumes their works ; He hears their prayers for themselves
or for others, thus maintaining the communion of -
730. He left in it also other fountains of light and
truth, the holy Gospels and writings dictated by the Holy
Ghost, the decisions of the sacred councils, the assured
and ancient traditions. He sends at opportune times
holy doctors full of wisdom ;
He furnishes teachers and
learned men, preachers and ministers in abundance. He
spreads the renown of the Church through his wonderful
saints; beautifies it with a variety of religious orders,
wherein the perfect and apostolic life is professed and
preserved; He governs it
by many prelates and digni
taries. In order that all
may proceed in harmony. He
placed over it a supreme bead, the Roman Pontiff, his
vicar, with the plenitude of fitghggf and divine authority,
as the head of this mystical and most beautiful body.
He defends and protects him to the end of the world
against all the powers of the earth and the infernal
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