“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by this means to save hi

“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God Our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the Earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he was created. Hence, man is to make use of them insofar as they help him in the attainment of his end, and he must rid himself of them insofar as they prove a hindrance to him. Therefore, we must make ourselves indifferent to all created things.” - St. Ignatius Loyola, First Principle and Foundation.

Image: “Charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary” (detail) by Edmund Blair Leighton