This is not a bug but rather a feature. Through grace alone can we be said to be good enough. Through love are our sins pardoned. The impossibility of being truly good is often mistaken as a source for guilt and shame and heartache. Grace and love quench this.
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This is also not an excuse to become complacent. The child who loves his father will strive to obey, not rest on his father’s patience and forbearance. We are expected to pursue perfection all the days of our life while understanding that it will always remain beyond our fingers.
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There is freedom, purpose, meaning, and hope in this balance. Imperfection can be forgiven through grace and love. Filial piety demands sincere striving to atone for the past through obedient works now and tomorrow. Those works never create salvation but are outward signs.
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Whoa, that last sentence sounds very Protestant.
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Now I’ve had a few debates with Catholics who would say otherwise. They have a notion of salvation being faith+works. Isn’t this what the Counsel of Trent teaches?
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I agree. Just doesn’t sound like the Catholics I’ve encountered. I have even used the same reasoning you gave to no avail. Lately I’ve been seeing very different, and even opposing, beliefs and practices in the Catholic Church.
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