What catechism says about confession?
CCC 1457 According to the Church’s command, “after having attained the age of discretion, each of the faithful is bound by an obligation faithfully to confess serious sins at least once a year.” …
I personally my daily prayer, every day ask God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive all my sins.
Yes God has foreknowledge, but also “God is the author of
all causes and effects. God’s omnipotent providence exercises
a complete and perfect control over all events that happen, or will happen, in the universe,”
includes every our salutary acts and includes every act of our sins.
Latin but still- YOU choose. God helps you, tells you, but you choose.
Correct, I’m freely choose by God’s gift of
aided/ caused free will as follows;
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Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott;
For every salutary act
internal supernatural grace of God (gratia elevans) is
absolutely necessary, (
De fide dogma).
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There is a
supernatural intervention of God in the faculties of the soul, which
precedes the free act of the will, (
De fide dogma).
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De gratia Christi 25, 26: “For not only has God given us our ability and helps it, but
He even works [brings about] willing and acting in us; not that we do not will or that we do not act, but that
without His help we neither will anything good nor do it”
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De gratia et libero arbitrio 16, 32: “It is certain that we will when we will; but
He brings it about that we will good … . It is certain that we act when we act, but
He brings it about that we act ,
providing most effective powers to the will.
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CCC 2022; The divine
initiative (supernatural intervention of God in the faculties of the soul) in the work of grace
precedes, prepares, and elicits the free response of man.
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Aquinas said, “
God changes the will without forcing it. But he can
change the will from the fact that
he himself operates in the will as he does in nature,” De Veritatis 22:9. 31.
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CCC 308 The truth that God is at work in
all the actions of his creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator.
God is the
first cause who operates in and through
secondary causes:
"For God is at work in you,
both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Far from diminishing the creature’s dignity, this truth
enhances it.
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CCC 307 God thus enables men to be intelligent and free,
causes in order to complete the work of creation, …
Though often unconscious collaborators with God’s will.
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As God himself operates in our wills/ spoon-feeds us with ALL THE GRACES NECESSARY FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, IN THIS WAY NO ONE rejects His graces,
we don’t even have to know that we are freely cooperating with His graces.
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CCC 307, CCC 2022, etc. As we are God’s builders, God
causes us in order to complete the work of creation, …
Though often unconscious collaborators with God’s will.
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God bless
