The Gift of God's Grace for the Predestined Souls
What is God's Grace?
Blessed Mary describes the efficacious gift of God's miraculous grace which may be merited by all of God's creatures into eternal life.
Instructions from Blessed Mary given to Sr. Mary of Agreda "The City of God" - The Resurrection of Christ our Savior
“..I wish to give thee some rules, by which you can pass on from the consideration of the gifts of the glorified body to those of the soul.
You already know that the gifts of the soul are vision, comprehension and fruition, while you have already mentioned those of the body as being: clearness, impassibility, subtility and agility.
Each of these gifts are correspondingly augmented in him, who in the state of grace, performs the least meritorious work, even if it be no more than removing a straw or giving a cup of water for the love of God (Matth. 10, 42).
For each of the most insignificant works the creature gains an increase of these gifts;
an increase of clearness exceeding many times the sunlight and added to its state of blessedness;
an increase of impassibility, by which man recedes from human and earthly corruption farther than what all created efforts and strength could ever effect in resisting or separating itself from such infirmity or changefulness;
an increase of subtility, by which he advances beyond all that could offer it resistance and gains new power of penetration;
an increase of agility, surpassing all the activity of birds, of winds, and all other active creatures, such as fire and the elements tending to their center.
From this increase of the gifts of the body merited by good works, you will understand the augmentation of the gifts of the soul; for those of the body are derived from those of the soul and correspond with them.
In the beatific vision each merit secures greater clearness and insight into the divine attributes and perfections than that acquired by all the doctors and enlightened members of the Church.
Likewise the gift of apprehension, or possession of the divine Object, is augmented; for the security of the possession of the highest and infinite Good makes the tranquility and rest of its enjoyment more estimable than if the soul possessed all that is precious and rich, desirable and worthy of attainment in all creation, even if possessed all at one time.
Fruition, the third gift of the soul, on account of the love with which man performs the smallest acts, so exalts the degrees of fruitional love, that the greatest love of men here on earth can never be compared thereto; nor can the delight resulting therefrom ever be compared with all the delights of this mortal life.
Elevate therefore now your thoughts, my daughter, and from these wonderful rewards, gained by one little deed done for God, consider what shall be the lot of the saints, who for the love of God have performed such heroic and magnificent works, and have suffered such cruel torments and martyrdom as are known in the Church of Christ.
And if these things happen in mere men, subject to faults and imperfections that retard merit, imagine, as far as you can, the exaltation of my divine Son.
Then you will feel how limited is human capacity, especially in mortal life, to comprehend worthily this mystery and to conceive in a becoming manner such greatness”.
Read: Volume III Book II Chapter XXXVI