The Seven Sacrements and Grace

[Montie_Claunch]

Odd question but, still it’s there in the back of my mind. As I know (and if there is a wrong premice two begin with please correct) the seven Sacrements grants us grace. Does the Sacrements grant us diffrent types of Grace? Is there only one type of grace or is there mulitpule styles? If more than one type, what kinds of grace are there and which go to which sacrament? Does grace have a time limit (in which it would were off so to speak) if so how long? Thanks and God bless.

P.S. Sorry for any misspellings.

 

[Hegesippus]

If I am not mistaken,grace is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and it is Him that we recieve.

 

[NotWorthy]

Grace is of two main sorts regarding the subject: an actual grace or a habitual grace. A habitual grace is Divine help given to move the will and have the subject act; but habitual grace is a divinely bestowed objective quality residing in us, rather than a passing help to act.

Of the habitual kinds of graces there is primarily (in importance) sanctifying grace which actually makes us holy in the substance of our being (not directly experienced), removing all original and deadly sin and disposing the soul to house the Trinity as in a temple (actually making the subject a “living stone” of the Temple who is Christ). This is the grace of justification, and it is a permanent quality making us divine-like (bestowing the likeness of God lost in original sin). It is bestowed in the Sacrament of Baptism.

The second kind of habitual graces is an infused power, e.g., the virtue of Faith, or of Hope or of Charity (or many other virtues), which are placed in the mind, memory and will of the subject. These habitual abilities in the mind, memory and will are also given at Baptism, and are powers that allow us to act as Christ.

Faith likewise can be of the same sorts, a specific actual grace to believe (and act of the mind and will to accept) here and now, or as a permanent quality in the mind and will, with a certain stability and enduringness, giving us the ability to act.

Finally another sort of grace, called gratuitous grace or charisms, can be given, but they are not primarily for the sanctification of the receiver, but for others, e.g., healing.

One is justified therefore by sanctifying grace through the Sacrament of Baptism simply if one is an infant or child (before the use of reason); Or if one is old enough, first by an actual grace of faith (an ad hoc grace which does not remove sin yet), then by habitual Sanctifying grace given by Baptism, bringing God into the soul with all the attending virtues in the spiritual faculties.

Simple, eh?

Notworthy

 

[puzzleannie]

in addition to sanctifying grace, so well explained above, each sacrament gives the specific actual grace associated with it, for instance, the sacrament of Holy Orders confers not only the authority to carry out the role of the priest but the grace with which to do so, and the charisms of celibacy, preaching etc. The sacrament of matrimony in addition to uniting the couple confers the grace necessary to meet the demands of the married state, and the charisms of fidelity etc.