Friday, September 8, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 339 – Part I.
(Youcat answer) God’s grace brings us
into the inner life of the Holy Trinity, into the exchange of love between
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It makes us capable of living in God’s love and of
acting on the basis of this love.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 1999) The grace of Christ is the
gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy
Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or deifying grace received in Baptism. It is in us the source of the
work of sanctification (Cf. Jn 4:14; 7:38-39): Therefore if any one is in
Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has
come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself (2 Cor 5:17-18).
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment) Grace is
infused in us from above and cannot be explained in terms of natural causes
(supernatural grace). It makes us—especially through Baptism—children of God
and heirs of heaven (sanctifying or deifying grace). It bestows on us a
permanent disposition to do good (habitual grace). Grace helps us to know, to
will, and to do everything that leads us to what is good, to God, and to heaven
(actual grace). Grace comes about in a special way in the sacraments, which
according to the will of our Savior are the preeminent places for our encounter
with God (sacramental grace). Grace is manifested also in special gifts of
grace that are granted to individual Christians (Charisms) or in special powers
that are promised to those in the state of marriage, the ordained state, or the
religious state (graces of state).
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 2000) Sanctifying grace is an habitual
gift, a stable and supernatural disposition that perfects the soul itself to
enable it to live with God, to act by his love. Habitual grace, the permanent disposition to live and act in
keeping with God's call, is distinguished from actual graces which refer to God's interventions, whether at the
beginning of conversion or in the course of the work of sanctification.
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