Catechism of the Catholic Church §226 — excerpt
It means making good use of created things: faith in God, the only One, leads us to use everything that is not God only insofar as it brings us closer to him, and to detach ourselves from it insofar as it turns us away from…
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Also cites: St. Nicholas of Flue
