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Jun 2021
The supernatural life begins with faith because faith is the door to the unseen world. Today we live in and have been formed by the world of anti-faith. It is important to recognize that reality of the contemporary world because it means that to live by faith in this world, we must be vigilant and even militant (at least spiritually). Be sober and vigilant because your adversary the devil goes around like a roaring lion looking for whom he might devour; resist him, steadfast in faith. (1 Pe 5:8-9) We could say......
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June 04, 2021
Overview of the Supernatural Organism: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Sanctifying grace and the infused virtues are supernatural realities that transform and elevate the human soul. They really belong to us; they are ‘ours’. We are the ones who perform acts of faith, hope, and...
May 28, 2021
Overview of the Supernatural Organism: The Infused Virtues
I have opened up the subject of the ‘supernatural organism’, the complex of supernatural virtues and gifts that come with sanctifying grace. First, however, I wrote about the natural acquired virtues and their relation to...
May 21, 2021
Relation between natural and supernatural virtue
My intention has been to write about the ‘supernatural organism’ that comes with sanctifying grace: the supernatural virtues and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, grace heals, transforms, elevates, and perfects nature, so before...
May 14, 2021
Natural Virtue
Last Sunday I presented the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the subject of the grace of justification, which is effectively another name for sanctifying grace. (cf. CCC 1266) Sanctifying grace is...
May 07, 2021
Justification of the soul – the key to justice
I have spent more than a year writing about social justice or the right order of human society based upon the order revealed in Eden: the right order of man beneath God, the right order...
April 23, 2021
The Common Good: a shared life of worship and contemplation
Last week I began to enter into more detail on the subject of the common good as ‘living well together’ where ‘living well’ is defined by the Ten Commandments. After reviewing the ‘second table’, the...
April 16, 2021
The Common Good: a shared life of virtue
Last Sunday I resumed my series of reflections on ‘social justice’, the right order of human society, resuming again the theme of the ‘common good’. I spoke of the common good as ‘living well’ together,...
April 09, 2021
Social justice resumed: The common good as ‘living well together’
Last year I had been writing a series of reflections on ‘social justice’ as ‘the right order of human society’. I took as my starting point the harmonious order that existed in Eden before sin...
April 02, 2021
The Resurrection and Walking in the Newness of Life
We were buried with Christ in baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in the newness of life. (Rm 6:4)...