Grace as a commodity?

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I heard a priest talk about grace awhile back and he confused me, and I haven’t been able to find anything out about what he said on my own. Can you guys help me?

He said that decades ago the Church taught that grace was a commodity - something we could store up, others could store up, and then we could ‘check it out’ and ‘unpack it’ when we needed it. Now, he says, we realize grace is our on-going relationship with Christ.

Does anyone know what he is talking about?
 
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Elzee:
I heard a priest talk about grace awhile back and he confused me, and I haven’t been able to find anything out about what he said on my own. Can you guys help me?

He said that decades ago the Church taught that grace was a commodity - something we could store up, others could store up, and then we could ‘check it out’ and ‘unpack it’ when we needed it. Now, he says, we realize grace is our on-going relationship with Christ.

Does anyone know what he is talking about?
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My first guess is he was speaking this way as a metaphor for what was actually said. That’s only a guess, though.

Alan
 
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Elzee:
I heard a priest talk about grace awhile back and he confused me, and I haven’t been able to find anything out about what he said on my own. Can you guys help me?

He said that decades ago the Church taught that grace was a commodity - something we could store up, others could store up, and then we could ‘check it out’ and ‘unpack it’ when we needed it. Now, he says, we realize grace is our on-going relationship with Christ.

Does anyone know what he is talking about?
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No but if I had not had the commodity of graces stored from all those nightly rosaries, stations of the Cross I would not be here today.The only thing I can think he may have been saying is grace does help us in our daily walk with Christ.
 
I saw a term in a book I have called ‘treasurey of merit’ - but it wasn’t explained - does that term maybe refer to ‘stored up graces’??
 
Once a supervisor told me it takes about 100 “attaboys” to make up for one “oops.” I wonder if it works that way with grace? 😛

Alan
 
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