When reason searches...

When reason searches, illuminated by faith, acknowledging God as the supreme wisdom, it finds - with the help of the gift of God - the intelligence that permits it, by analogy with what it knows through natural reason or through the connection of the self-same mysteries amongst themselves, that he is allowed to discover a part - not all - of God\'s mysteries.

However, man will never understand all of God's mysteries, because their nature as divine mysteries surpasses man's understanding, "for we walk by faith, not by sight" (4) Although faith is beyond reason, God Himself, who reveals the mysteries and inspires faith, put the light of reason in the human soul.

In this way, righteous reason demonstrates the fundaments of faith, and, through the light of faith, cultivates the sciences of the divine, while faith, on its side, delivers and defends reason from error and provides it with a diversity of knowledge.

Less scientifically and technologically advanced human communities in the world today are able to show great examples of wisdom and teach those more sophisticated and developed communities the true value of humanity, that value that is tempered by the heart and is filtered through love. God has designed de soul to be happy .

God Blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." (5) The purpose of human life is an ideal which transcends the mundane goals of human existence, for it is based upon the vision of God. The highest and best of human values, truth, love, joy and happiness are aspirations grounded in the original human nature.

The word for "humankind", Adam, comes from the same root as does "earth" and is a generic term for the human species; humans, man and female, resemble the Creator. Humankind was created to share a unique relationship with God. "God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good." (6) Adam and Eve, our first parents, were created in the state of innocence, graceand happiness.

They were adorned with the grace of God, which God communicated to their souls, making them beautiful and truly holy before him.