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Bonita
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| First Name: | Bonita | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | Catholic |
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 05:53 pm |
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I am wondering if final perseverance is a gift we will always receive if we pray for it fervently? I don't mean that I am thinking we can just pray for final perseverance ,then live and do whatever we think we want. I am not trying to be presumptuous. I am just thinking about how I know God the Father has a generous heart and is most loving - It seems to me that he would always hear and answer our heart's desire for final perseverance.
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japhy
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 06:22 pm |
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Council of Trent, Session VI, On Justification, Chapter XIII: The Gift of Perseverance.
Similarly with regard to the gift of perseverance, of which it is written:
He that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved, which cannot be obtained from anyone except from Him who is able to make him stand who stands, that he may stand perseveringly, and to raise him who falls, let no one promise himself herein something as certain with an absolute certainty, though all ought to place and repose the firmest hope in God's help.
For God, unless men themselves fail in His grace, as he has begun a good work, so will he perfect it, working to will and to accomplish.
Nevertheless, let those who think themselves to stand, take heed lest they fall, and with fear and trembling work out their salvation, in labors, in watchings, in almsdeeds, in prayer, in fastings and chastity.
For knowing that they are born again unto the hope of glory, and not as yet unto glory, they ought to fear for the combat that yet remains with the flesh, with the world and with the devil, in which they cannot be victorious unless they be with the grace of God obedient to the Apostle who says:
We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; for if you live according to the flesh, you shall die, but if by the spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.
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[Mary said,] "Do whatever he tells you." - John 2:5
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CajunRick
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Posted: Fri May 18th, 2007 06:50 pm |
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Bonita wrote: I am wondering if final perseverance is a gift we will always receive if we pray for it fervently?
From the Catechism:
2016 The children of our holy mother the Church rightly hope for the grace of final perseverance and the recompense of God their Father for the good works accomplished with his grace in communion with Jesus. Keeping the same rule of life, believers share the "blessed hope" of those whom the divine mercy gathers into the "holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband."
So the answer is, through our own perseverance in our faith in Almighty God, our hope in the Spirit, and our acts of charity as commanded by our Savior, God will grant us the grace of final perseverence.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. - Augustine
Rick Luquette
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