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By Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. Dedicated to Saint Joseph the Betrothed, Patron and Protector of the Universal Church

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Entries Tagged as 'Grace'

Grace Perfects Nature

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Rationalists, for whom the supernatural order is a mere fantasy, contend that the Catholic concept of grace alienates man from his nature. The opposite error was advanced by certain modern Catholic theologians who broke with tradition and made grace virtually implicit in nature.

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Tags: Spiritual Theology · Grace

Catholics, Protestants, Grace, and the Spiritual Life

January 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

This paper answers the following question: Given what Catholics believe about grace, merit and justification, why is it much more logical for Catholics to have treatises on progress in the practice of the presence of God and growth in mystical prayer than Protestants?
To answer this question, we must first contrast the two positions on grace, […]

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Tags: Apologetics · Spiritual Theology · Grace

Father Brian Harrison on the Necessity of Explicit Faith for Salvation

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Father asks: “Can an ‘implicit faith in Christ’ be sufficient for salvation?” He answers “No.” And he does so in over thirty pages of serious scholarship, with copious references to Fathers, Doctors, approved theologians, and magisterial pronouncements.
Father Brian Harrison, O.S., M.A., S.T.D., is Professor Emeritus of Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico […]

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Tags: Fr. Leonard Feeney, St. Benedict Center, and Friends · Ecclesiology · Grace

The Old Law as a Preparation for the New

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

After the Original Sin, man was left in a condition of alienation from God. Whereas before the sin, he enjoyed infused knowledge in his intellect, loving obedience in his will, spontaneous virtue in his emotions, and no sickness or death in the body; after the fall, he is punished with ignorance in the intellect, malice […]

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Tags: Sacred Scripture and Tradition: Sources of Revelation · Grace

Saint Maximus the Confessor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Christ’s Two Wills

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

St. Maximus, the monastic mystic and eminent controversialist of orthodoxy against the Monothelites, earned his title “the Confessor” because he died in exile for his heroic confession. In his defense of the orthodox faith against an heretical emperor and supine ecclesiastics, he continued the work of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, St. Sophronius (whom he considered […]

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Tags: Church History · Christology · Grace

Grace and the “Problem” of Man’s Desire for God

October 25th, 2007 · 6 Comments

This problem is important in establishing the relationship of nature to grace because it offers something of a “test case” by which we can illustrate certain fundamental truths of the Catholic Faith. These truths regard man’s natural powers and the elevation of those powers by grace that he may achieve his final end, the Beatific […]

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Tags: Grace