In my Faith and Morality book it stated that sanctifying grace is the greatest gift mankind has received. Sanctifying grace is an amazing gift, but isn’t Jesus himself the greatest gift mankind has received?
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sanctifying grace is “the gratuitous gift of his life that God makes to us; it is infused by the Holy Spirit into the soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it” (CCC 2023). Since sanctifying grace is God’s own life within us, it is a way of saying that it is God himself, as he lives in communion with us. That is probably why your book identified sanctifying grace as “the greatest gift mankind has received.”
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