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Choose a topic from Part 1:

• God and His Attributes
• The Blessed Trinity
• Creation
• The Angels
• The Days of Creation
  • 65. The Creation of Bodies
  • 66. The Order of Bodily Creation
  • 67. Light: Work of the First Day of Creation
  • 68. Work of the Second Day of Creation
  • 69. Work of the Third Day of Creation
  • 70. Work of the Fourth Day of Creation
  • 71. Work of the Fifth Day of Creation
  • 72. Work of the Sixth Day of Creation
  • 73. The Seventh Day
  • 74. Meaning of the Seven Days
• Man
• The Divine Government

71. Work of the Fifth Day of Creation

1. The work of the fifth day was the production of fowls and fishes and things that creep in the waters. As the fourth day sees the firmament adorned with light-giving bodies, the fifth day sees the lower elements of air and water made fruitful with living things.

"Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts."
St Philip Neri

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"This is the greatest wisdom -- to seek the kingdom of heaven through contempt of the world. "
Thomas á Kempis

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"Whom do you seek, friend, if you seek not God? Seek him, find him, cleave to him; bind your will to his with bands of steel and you will live always at peace in this life and in the next."
St Alphonsus de Liguori

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