and cannot be deduced from the effect, except from a singular and efficacious operation of God Himself. For information, so that we may understand here that all the duties that we offer to God are gifts from God, for nothing can be offered by us to God for the sanctifying of His name, unless it was previously given by God to us. Moreover, for this reason, God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, in every spiritual communion that we have from Him. In the first place He forgives those