'Sola Caritas' Trumps 'Sola fide'

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mcq72 said:
So long as one doesn’t take the signs of reconciliation as the means of it.
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So long as one understands that Sola Caritas is the name of the game in defining man’s justice upon which he’ll be judged; then the gospel is understood. This is what faith is meant to achieve. The reconciliation I was speaking of, of course, involved reconciling teachings and statements found in Scripture. Reconciliation between man and God comes as man comes to know the true God, and enter communion with Him, via faith. Paul went to great pains to explain that without interior conversion to the living God, any outward show of righteousness was based on self; it was self-“righteousness”. To be “under the law” is to be made aware of God’s law, yet to still be operating under ones own efforts to fulfill it. To be “under grace” means to cohabit with God, to live by the Spirit as man was made to do, a relationship that Adam spurned, which enables us to fulfill the law by the righteousness that His presence accomplishes in us as we continue to abide in Him as opposed to the world, a righteousness most fully defined by the term love. So keeping in mind that love is to be the motive behind man’s authentic righteousness, as it is with Christ who’s the source of our love and the works that love naturally seeks to do, these statements are easily reconciled with each other:

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets." Jesus

"For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Jesus

"If you want to enter life, keep the commandments" Jesus

"Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Jesus

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Jesus

"Love fulfills the Law." Paul

“Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” Paul

“For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.” Paul

"Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." Paul

"…if I have a faith that can move mountains but have not love, I am nothing." Paul

"And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love." Paul

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"For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life." Paul

"God ‘will repay each person according to what they have done.’ To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life." Paul

"The only thing that counts is faith working through love." Paul

"As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and not by faith alone." James

The New Covenant is the new way to accomplish what the Old Covenant could not.

"Be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect." Jesus

Augustine tells us, "The perfection of a man is to come to know his imperfections." Love is the perfection of man, our goal. And at the evening of life we’ll be judged on it.
 
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ItsMeAgain said:
[969] "This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation . . . . Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix."512
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Show me where that says by Mary ALONE? Do you need for me to quote the statement that you claimed came directly from this teaching?
 
I see someone even flagged the quote from the Catechism so I need to be careful.:roll_eyes:

The motherhood of Mary is often expressed as how much she loves us. Taken up into heaven she did not lay aside this “saving office.” I assume the saving office is the motherhood? But by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation…

I can see how it could be interpreted that way. How is it supposed to be understood?

Is continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation…Justification?
 
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De_Maria said:
Answer my question. You and your anti-Catholic friends like to misrepresent Catholic Teaching and then deny it. Where does the Cathechism say from “Mary’s love alone” as you assert and defend?
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Wow, I thought I did answer it and am looking for clarification from you.

Your reply is quite uncharitable. I don’t identify with your accusation at all.
 
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