CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Grace
| Explains the concept of actual grace, which is defined in the article as "a supernatural help of God for salutary acts granted in consideration of the ... www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm - 8k - |
Grace: What It Is and What It Does
| Catholic viewpoint on sanctification and justification. www.catholic.com/library/Grace_What_It_Is.asp - 35k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Controversies on Grace
| Controversies that are concerned chiefly with the relation between grace and free will. www.newadvent.org/cathen/06710a.htm - 41k - |
Mary: "Full of Grace"
| The key to understanding all these graces is Mary’s role as the New Eve, which the Fathers proclaimed so forcefully. Because she is the New Eve, she, ... www.catholic.com/library/Mary_Full_of_Grace.asp - 38k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sanctifying Grace
| Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity. www.newadvent.org/cathen/06701a.htm - 125k - |
Baptismal Grace
| Few truths are so clearly taught in the New Testament as the doctrine that in baptism God gives us grace. Again and again the sacred writers tell us that it ... www.catholic.com/library/Baptismal_Grace.asp - 36k - |
CHURCH FATHERS: On Nature and Grace (St. Augustine)
| Featuring the Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica and more. www.newadvent.org/fathers/1503.htm - 231k - |
Immaculate Conception and Assumption
| The grace given to Mary is at once permanent and of a unique kind. ... So, the grace Mary enjoyed was not a result of the angel’s visit. ... www.catholic.com/library/ |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Actual Grace
| A grace that is given by God for the performance of salutary acts and is present and disappears with the action itself. www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689x.htm - 111k - |
St. Probus and Grace - Catholic Online
| St. Probus and Grace. unknown. Saints, husband and wife, from Comwall. A church in Wales, Tressilian, is dedicated to them. ... www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=5484 - 34k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pilgrimage of Grace
| A religious rising in the north of England in 1536. www.newadvent.org/cathen/12084b.htm - 11k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William Russell Grace
| Philanthropist and merchant, born at Cork, Ireland, 10 May, 1832; died at New York, 21 March, 1904. www.newadvent.org/cathen/06714a.htm - 12k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Harbor Grace
| The towns of Harbor Grace and Carbonear have each an academy, and in some other of the more populous settlements there are superior or high schools. ... www.newadvent.org/cathen/07133a.htm - 16k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Grace at Meals
| One of the most ancient formulae of prayer at meals is found in a treatise of the fourth century, attributed without foundation to Saint Athanasius. www.newadvent.org/cathen/06714b.htm - 14k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The gratuitous grace consisting in words ...
| Does any gratuitous grace attach to words? To whom is the grace becoming? www.newadvent.org/summa/3177.htm - 20k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Grace Before Meals
| The word grace, which, as applied to prayer over food, always in pre-Elizabethan English took the plural form graces, means nothing but thanksgiving. www.newadvent.org/cathen/14554c.htm - 19k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The division of grace (Prima Secundae Partis, Q ...
| Is grace fittingly divided into gratuitous grace and sanctifying grace? The division into operating and cooperating grace. www.newadvent.org/summa/2111.htm - 42k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The cause of grace (Prima Secundae Partis, Q. 112)
| Is God alone the efficient cause of grace? Is any disposition towards grace needed on the part of the recipient, by an act of free-will? www.newadvent.org/summa/2112.htm - 40k - |
Who Can Receive Communion?
| To receive Communion worthily, you must be in a state of grace, ... To receive the Eucharist without sanctifying grace in your soul profanes the Eucharist ... www.catholic.com/library/Who_Can_Receive_Communion.asp - 36k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The grace of God as regards its essence (Prima ...
| Does grace imply something in the soul? Is grace a quality? Does grace differ from infused virtue? The subject of grace. www.newadvent.org/summa/2110.htm - 39k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The sacraments' principal effect, which is grace ...
| Are the sacraments of the New Law the cause of grace? Does sacramental grace confer anything in addition to the grace of the virtues and gifts? www.newadvent.org/summa/406206.htm - 50k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The perfection of the angels in the order of ...
| Did they need grace in order to turn to God? Were they created in grace? Did they merit their beatitude? Did they at once enter into beatitude after merit? www.newadvent.org/summa/1062.htm - 64k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The grace of miracles (Secunda Secundae Partis ...
| Is there a gratuitous grace of working miracles? To whom is it becoming? www.newadvent.org/summa/3178.htm - 25k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Circumcision (Tertia Pars, Q. 70)
| It seems that circumcision did not bestow sanctifying grace. ... Wherefore others said that grace was bestowed by circumcision, as to that effect which is ... www.newadvent.org/summa/407002.htm - 34k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The grace of tongues (Secunda Secundae Partis, Q ...
| Does a man, by the grace of tongues, acquire the knowledge of all languages? The comparison between this gift and the grace of prophecy. www.newadvent.org/summa/3176.htm - 24k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Things pertaining to the first man's will ...
| Was the first man created in grace? In the state of innocence, did he have passions of the soul? Did he have all virtues? Would what he did have been as ... www.newadvent.org/summa/1095.htm - 37k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The gift of wisdom (Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 45)
| Is wisdom only speculative or also practical? Is the wisdom that is a gift compatible with mortal sin? Is it in all those who have sanctifying grace? www.newadvent.org/summa/304502.htm - 40k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Original Sin
| Original sin is the privation of sanctifying grace in consequence of the sin of Adam. This solution, which is that of St. Thomas, goes back to St. Anselm ... www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm - 53k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dei Gratia; Dei Et Apostolicae Sedis Gratia
| (By the grace of God; By the grace of God and the Apostolic See). A formulæ added to the titles of ecclesiastical dignitaries. ... www.newadvent.org/cathen/04679a.htm - 10k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The grace of Christ, as He is the head of the ...
| Is Christ the Head of the Church? Is He the Head of men as regards their bodies or only as regards their souls? Is He the Head of all men? www.newadvent.org/summa/400804.htm - 52k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The effects of grace (Prima Secundae Partis, Q. 113)
| What is the justification of the ungodly? Is grace required for it? Is any movement of the free-will required? Is a movement of faith required? www.newadvent.org/summa/211306.htm - 72k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The necessity of grace (Prima Secundae Partis, Q ...
| Without grace, can man know anything? Without God's grace, can man do or wish any good? Without grace, can man love God above all things? www.newadvent.org/summa/210903.htm - 80k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The grace of Christ as an individual man (Tertia ...
| Was there any habitual grace in the soul of Christ? Were there virtues in Christ? Did He have faith? Did He have hope? Were there the gifts in Christ? www.newadvent.org/summa/4007.htm - 81k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Congruism
| Congruism is the term by which theologians denote a theory according to which the efficacy of efficacious grace (see GRACE) is due, at least in part, ... www.newadvent.org/cathen/04251b.htm - 22k - |
Faith is nourished with lessons of Grace - Catholic Online
| Forty-five years ago Paul sat in a child-packed classroom and listened to his Catholic school teacher tell him that not everyone receives God’s grace. ... www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=3553 - 46k - 16 May 2007 - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Final Perseverance
| Final perseverance is the preservation of the state of grace till the end of life. The expression is taken from Matthew 10:22, "He that shall persevere unto ... www.newadvent.org/cathen/11711a.htm - 19k - |
Catholic Online - Prayers
| By means of his Church Christ makes his grace available to all. Only in this application of ... The sacraments are the vehicles of grace which they convey. ... www.catholic.org/clife/prayers/sacrament.php - 32k - 16 May 2007 - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The effect of this sacrament (Supplementum, Q. 35)
| Is sanctifying grace conferred in the sacrament of Order? Is a character imprinted in connection with all the Orders? Does the character of Order presuppose ... www.newadvent.org/summa/5035.htm - 25k - |
SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Merit (Prima Secundae Partis, Q. 114)
| Without grace, can anyone merit eternal life? May anyone with grace merit ... May a man merit the first grace for himself? May he merit it for someone else? www.newadvent.org/summa/2114.htm - 65k - |
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Supernatural Gift
| This supernatural aid to a supernatural end is called grace. For our present purpose it will be sufficient to note that grace is either habitual (i.e. ... www.newadvent.org/cathen/06553a.htm - 20k - |