What Exactly is Grace Anyway? | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

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9 ай бұрын

Father Pine explains Grace and Forgiveness. How does Grace operate in our lives? How does it assist in the life of virtue?
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@ghostofauntjemima816 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Father Gregory! I’ve been hoping for a video on this! I’m going to be starting OCIA and converting from Reformed Judaism to Catholicism, please pray for me! 🙏🏻

@michaelscofield1970 9 ай бұрын

May God help you and all of the saints and angels pray for you.

@TrixRN 9 ай бұрын

I have been praying for you for a long time &m continue to pray for you.🙏❤️ As a sponsor I pray for all people discerning the Church before entry into OCIA/RCIA & throughout the program & for a year after baptism. You are loved, wanted & prayed for continually. God bless you.🙏❤️

@rebeccabyrne2414 9 ай бұрын

God bless you!

@theplinkerslodge6361 4 ай бұрын

One sign of grace I look for in myself or others is handling a tough situation outside of our normal, conditioned responses in a way that you KNOW you were guided by the Holy Spirit. Just a little example. A week ago I was headed to a social/secular event and prayed that God would keep me open to anyone that needed to hear about him. Completely out of left field, a friend brought up a controversial meme they had sent me that used a picture of Jesus. I just responded that he is a friend of mine, and the conversation took a 90 degree turn toward their son who had just been confirmed as an adult. After an earlier life of turmoil, the adopted son told this woman, his mom, that he received a tremendous amount of peace after confirmation. So by responding with what I feel was an unrehearsed and undeservedly grace-inspired response to her first comments, we ended up in a conversation the rest of the evening about how great God is. Glory to God.

@FSR431 Ай бұрын

"Grace has a certain claim on our lives. Everything essential to our lives is complete when we are in a state of Grace." Thus we can say we were made for Grace. Well done Fr. Gregory!

@liasosa4100 9 ай бұрын

Thank you Fr. Pine! Such a rich and wonderful explanation of Grace. I am a lifelong catholic, and while we pray for all these virtues, many times we fail to understand how special and meaningful thay are to our growth. Thanks for breathing Grace down.

@JuanMartinez-xl2oj 9 ай бұрын

I have not watched the video yet, but I have to say that his beard is looking boss!

@NoleNoleNoleJole 9 ай бұрын

You are the best regular guest on Pints with Aquinas! Your show is really good!

@CocogoatMemes 9 ай бұрын

excellent breakdown of the state of grace. I struggle with lots of human desires but confession and leaning on his Grace is what keeps me on the right path and moves me forward. Thank you!

@mrlxii62 9 ай бұрын

A little bit on the technical side Fr. Greg. Suggest the addition of more analogies.

@gretchenboyle481 9 ай бұрын

I enjoy listening to you. I bought your book on prudence, and I saw the discussion of grace early in it. I look forward to finish reading it. I also ask that you talk one day about the difficult topic of how to reconcile the Christian way to live versus the way secular groups or institutions operate, e.g. how to function in a job where it is to compete or to fight fire with fire, to not be humble but to get credit for your ideas in order to advance. Or if participate in political parties or government and sometimes strategies are antithetical to how we would behave as individuals. Thanks for considering

@mariachappers4328 9 ай бұрын

Thankyou so very much for this wonderful explanation of Grace.

@lilamaria4872 9 ай бұрын

Fr Gregory, Thank you for this explicit video. May God bless you abundantly today and always. 🙏🙏🙏

@Auroradiluculum 9 ай бұрын

I love this show.

@m4641 9 ай бұрын

Fr. Pine, I truly enjoy and benefit from your ministry. I have a tendency to speak in the same way. Now I see clearly why my wife gives me the deer in the headlights look.🤓

@rebeccabyrne2414 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Fr. Gregory. You are an inspiration! Blessings on you and your work!

@ydcjydcj1724 9 ай бұрын

What a coincidence! I was thinking of the same question just yesterday, in a clearer and deeper context. Our local language call it "grasya" from Spanish word "gracia".

@jimmcintyre5862 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Father. Would love to know what are some of the signs one looks for to know that they are likely in the state of grace and if there is a Thomstic basis for that.

@infidelcastrato1844 9 ай бұрын

Everyone asks what is Grace and who is Grace but never how is Grace? Society

@AngelBien 9 ай бұрын

I’ll do you one better: where is grace? Another: WHEN is grace?

@RemoneCunningham 2 ай бұрын

I am very interested in understanding the virtues ... what is a good place (book) to start.

@Richard_Paradise 9 ай бұрын

👍✝️🔥

@borealopelta7284 9 ай бұрын

Father Gregory, could you please do an episode or direct me to an episode on godsplaining about free will and predestination. I am barely Protestant, the discovery of John Calvin’s beliefs have repulsed me so much. But in someway it seems the catholic view is similar can you please help me understand this better. How does anyone have free will if god predestined who would ultimately be saved in the end?

@KB_2161 9 ай бұрын

Please interview Bishop Strickland again!!!❤❤❤

@trieug3354 9 ай бұрын

Looking to hearing you in person at Rosary Pilgrimage

@LucidDreamingStories89 9 ай бұрын

It's all about truth of good conquering evil. And this "state of grace" by good behavior is a childish answer to why we are defeated or happy.

@77crystalclear 9 ай бұрын

The Apotles were laying hands on the Baptised in order for them to receive the Holy Spirit. Just wondering if these two steps are now one with our Baptism. Wondering why it was changed.

@booksanatomy4103 9 ай бұрын

After Baptism it’s our Confirmation :) (where Bishops are laying hands on us)

@isabellazegarra7554 9 ай бұрын

need this bread and butter

@babisbabinos8075 9 ай бұрын

Where does the Bible say the Holy Spirit comes from the Son also? Jesus only sends it, right?

@39knights 9 ай бұрын

"....And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit...."

@snoopy104 9 ай бұрын

Been watching PWA for a couple months now. As a Protestant, this video confused me slightly. And made me curious. Fr. Pine starts out emphasizing that it's a gift, but then seems to transition into a lifestyle, a way of life, a task. To me, in my radical Protestant mindset XD, a gift emphasizes God as the active party in grace, where as the latter comparisons suggest that we are the active party in grace. Could someone elaborate (or point me to a video) on this? As a side question, is grace explained/taught today in the Catholic church different from the time of the Reformation? If different, what have been some of the biggest "breakthroughs" in explaining the concept of grace that have been helpful to Catholics today?

@zr3755 9 ай бұрын

Lutheranism would say that to presume on God's grace-defined as free & unmerited favor-negates the gift. So, there is a bit of a task: avoid willful sin. As the Apostle James writes, "You believe that there is one God? Good, even the demons believe and tremble"

@snoopy104 9 ай бұрын

@@zr3755 Thanks for the answer. Would you say this task of avoiding willful sin earns grace, repays grace, or renews grace? (Or something else.)

@zr3755 9 ай бұрын

@@snoopy104 I would say that avoiding sin is the proper response of a grateful Christian for the gift of grace

@jmelvin 9 ай бұрын

Is the theological concept of grace unique to Christianity? Eastern religions talk about "energy" or "life force" as essential to both physical and spiritual health and growth. Is that something totally different from what grace is understood to be in Christianity? Thanks if any answer can be provided.

@NTNG13 9 ай бұрын

Grace always has the connotation of being received as a gift withour our merit from a Supreme Intelligence, it's an outflowing of Divine Essence from God. A movement external to the believer that then grants this supernatural essence and makes it dwell in them. Eastern religions seem to speak of energy already belonging to the person or that they can get access to by exercises or techniques.

@superapex2128 9 ай бұрын

If I may interject... Grace, in the western Tradition, is 'Teleological' in the sense that it is 'Predetermined' toward the Good - which is God. It has a life of its own - being, as it is, a 'Participation in the very Life of God' - which draws us closer to God, if we allow it to. The word 'Energy' implies the lack of 'Predetermination', the lack of direction: we find the same idea in the West since the Jesuits unilaterally decided, in the latter half of the XVIth Century, that any 'Predetermination' toward the Good would be a frontal 'assault' on Man's 'Freedom of Choice'. This is not an easy topic because Grace is invisible, as Fr. Pine said, and because, being the very heart of the Church, it has been subjected to unrelenting attacks from the Devil. Everybody seems to err on one side of the argument or the other and it is extrememely difficult to sift through the lies and 'get it right', but if you do... that's the key to Sanctification and, ultimately, to Salvation - so it's well worth spending some time on it. As for the demonic 'Grace' found in Eastern religions, that has nothing to do with the supernatural Grace of the God Most High: it's merely the preternatural 'gifts' Satan gives to those who fail to embrace the Cross and make a pact with him - knowingly or unknowingly. Hope that helps!