Sanctifying Grace, Actual Grace, Charismatic Grace, and Sacramental Grace: How Does This All Work?
Mere Tradition with Kennedy Hall
iCatholic Mobile: https://www.icatholicmobile.com/ Real Estate For Life: https://realestateforlife.org/ Sources Used: Magisterial documents * Council of Trent, Session VI, Decree on Justification (1547), ch. 7 — https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/decree-concerning-justification--decree-concerning-reform-1496 * Council of Trent, Session VII, Canons on the Sacraments in General (1547), canons 6–8 — https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/decree-concerning-the-sacraments--decree-concerning-reform-1497 * Catechism of the Council of Trent (the “Roman Catechism,” 1566), Part II, “On the Sacraments” — McHugh-Callan translation (1923): https://www.catholicsociety.com/documents/Catechism_of_the_Council%20of_Trent.pdf — also available in the older Donovan translation (1829): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Catechism_of_the_Council_of_Trent/Part_2 St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae * I-II, qq. 109–114 — general treatise on grace * I-II, q. 111 — “The Division of Grace” (sanctifying vs. gratuitous, operating vs. cooperating, prevenient vs. subsequent) — https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2111.htm * III, q. 62, a. 2 — whether sacramental grace adds anything beyond the grace of the virtues and gifts — https://www.newadvent.org/summa/4062.htm * III, q. 72, a. 7, ad 3 — restates the q. 62 teaching — https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.TP_Q72_A7.html References and manuals (all pre-conciliar) * The Catholic Encyclopedia (Robert Appleton Co., 1907–1912), “Actual Grace” by Joseph Pohle — https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689x.htm * Ludwig Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (Herder, 1952; Tan Books reprint) — Book 3, “God the Sanctifier” (grace) and Book 4, “The Doctrine of the Sacraments” (sacramental grace) * Joseph Pohle, Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise, vol. VII of Dogmatic Theology, ed. Arthur Preuss (B. Herder, 1919) — public domain, on Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive * Joseph Pohle, The Sacraments: A Dogmatic Treatise, vols. VIII–XI of the same series (B. Herder, 1915–1917) * Baltimore Catechism No. 3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit meretradition.substack.com/subscribe