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St. Jerome says, “Man can do no good work without God, who, in giving free will, did not refuse his grace to aid every single work.” Mark the words “did not refuse his grace for every single work.”

All our strength, the prophet tells us, consists in placing all our confidence in God, and in being silent; that is, in reposing in the arms of his mercy, without trusting to our own efforts, or to human means.

And this is, and will be, their greatest torment in hell, to think how easily they might have been saved, only by asking God for his grace; but that now it is too late,—the time of prayer is over.

St. Bonaventure says the same: “Since the whole divine nature was in the womb of the Virgin, I do not fear to teach that she has a certain jurisdiction over all the streams of grace; as her womb was, as it were, an ocean of the divine nature, whence all the streams of grace must emanate.”