Q. WHO made you? A. God.

Q. Why did God make you?

A. To know Him, love Him, and serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in the next.

God created man of the earth, and made him after His own image (Ecclus. xvii. 1).

Know ye that the Lord He is God: He made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture (Ps. xcix. 3).

Now this is eternal life: that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent (S. John xvii. 3).

My son, give Me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep My ways (Prov. xxiii. 26).

For what have I in heaven? and besides Thee what do I desire upon earth? For Thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: Thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever (Ps. lxxii. 25).

By Thy ordinance the day goeth on for all things serve Thee (Ps. cxviii. 91).

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Serve ye the Lord with fear and rejoice unto Him with trembling (Ps. ii. 11).

Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great (Gen. xv. 1).

One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I

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Q. To whose likeness did God make you? A. To His own image and likeness.

Q. Is this likeness in your body or in your soul?

A. In my soul.

Q. How is your soul like to God?

A. Because my soul is a spirit and is immortal.

Q. What do you mean, when you say that your soul is immortal?

A. I mean that my soul can never die.

Q. Of which must you take most care, of your body, or of your soul?

A. Of my soul: for Christ has said, "What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?" (Matt. xvi. 26.)

may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life; that I may see the delight of the Lord, and visit His temple (Ps. xxvi. 4).

And He said: Let us make man to our image and likeness (Gen. i. 26).

Stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds, and putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of Him that created him (Col. iii. 9).

God is a Spirit, and they that adore Him, must adore Him in spirit and in truth (S. John iv. 24).

Now the Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Cor. iii. 17).

And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him that can destroy both soul and body into hell (S. Matt. x. 28).

Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you (S. Matt. vi. 33).

For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it; for he that shall lose his life for My sake, shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, and cast away himself? (S. Luke ix. 24.)

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field; which a man having found, hideth and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good

Q. What must you do to save your soul?

A. I must worship God by faith, hope, and charity; that is, I must believe in Him, hope in Him, and love Him with my whole heart.

pearls: who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it (S. Matt. xiii. 44).

Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal (S. Matt. vi 19).

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And He spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits. And he thought within himself, saying: What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said: This will I do I will pull down my barns, and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me, and my goods. And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thy rest, eat, drink, make good cheer. But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee; and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God (S. Luke xii. 16).

O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are His judgments, and how unsearchable His ways! (Rom. xi. 23.)

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty to God unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels, and every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every under