Day 262: Habitual and Actual Grace

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Without God’s help, we can do nothing. The Catechism delves into grace today, explaining how grace works and helps us achieve our supernatural vocation to eternal life. Fr. Mike unpacks the difference between habitual and actual grace and reminds us that God is always the initiator of all our spiritual efforts. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1996-2001.

This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.

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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.3	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:22.0	and God's family, as we journey together toward our Heavenly Home. This is day 262
0:26.0	we're reading paragraphs 1996 to 2001, as always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:31.3	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version
0:34.9	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year
0:38.3	reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash the IY and you can on day 262. You can be the one
0:44.2	person on day 262 who subscribes or follows your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications,
0:49.3	think about that. Maybe you're that one person who got all the way to day 262 and still hasn't
0:53.8	subscribed. Some people subscribe on day 365 and I think that's wonderful, but maybe you'll be the
1:00.0	only one. Think about it. Pray about it. Today, as we read paragraphs 1996 to 2001,
1:05.8	we're going to talk about grace. Yesterday we talked about justification. This is incredible.
1:10.1	Remember paragraph 1994 yesterday? It says, justification is the most excellent work of God's love
1:16.2	made manifest in Christ Jesus and granted by the Holy Spirit. So incredible. In fact, we
1:21.0	talked about this highlighted it at the end. How St. Augustine had said his opinion was that the
1:26.3	justification of the wicked is a greater work than the creation of the heaven and earth because
1:30.2	heaven and earth will pass away, but the salvation and justification of the elect will not pass away.
1:34.0	This incredible, incredible work of God's love, grace today. We talk about this. How does
1:39.1	justification happen? Well, justification, the most excellent work of God's love. How does
1:44.2	justification come about? Well, our justification in paragraph 1996, our justification comes from
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