Cultural and spiritual bad habit incline us to oppose God’s moving and prefer our moving of ourselves, fearing that acts caused by God are not properly ours. But ‘God is at work in you, both to will and to do’ (Phil. 2:13). God works ‘interiorily’, animating and preserving the exercise of created will and aptitudes; grace does not devastate creatures but rectifies them and sets them to work. Mortification and vivification are works of ‘evangelical obedience’, again in two senses. First, the obedience