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1
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What is “faith” according to St. Paul?

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Faith is the substance of things unseen. (Hebrews 11:1)

2
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What are the two main effects of grace?

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Healing and elevating.

  1. Happens at the same time.
  2. Healing human nature affected by the Fall.
  3. Elevating human nature beyond what it could ever be without.
3
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What is “justification?”

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Being set right with God. It is an effect of “operative grace” i.e. only God can make us right with God.

4
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What is “merit?”

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The voluntary action of the person as deserving reward from God. It is the effect of “cooperative grace” i.e. God repays you what he gave you in the first place.

5
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What are the 3 stages of action in the human person?

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  1. Intention of the end (operative auxilium)
  2. Choice of the means (cooperative auxilium)
  3. Execution of the act (cooperative auxilium)
6
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What is hope?

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Hope is faith directed towards the future, a desire for the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness.

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What is faith?

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By faith, we believe in God, in all that he has revealed, and in all that the Church proposes for our belief. Faith leads to a total committal. “The righteous shall live by faith” (Rom 1:17).

8
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What is love?

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To will the good of the beloved. Love binds all virtues “together in perfect harmony (Col 3:14) and gives them order. Charity purifies and raises human love to the perfection of God’s love.