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Can We Be Good Without God? | Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski, O.P.

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What Does God's Grace Add to a Virtuous Life?

God's grace gives us acceptance of God's revelation, a supernatural goal to share in God's life. To practice moral virtue with ease we need to form our natural moral virtues by repeated practice which is one of the reasons why someone even living a supernatural Christian life can't ignore that level of natural virtue. For moral virtue to become easy we need to practice it and God's grace with the help of the infused virtues were able to super naturalize it but we still need that practiced ease. And then of course the third level, the goal, the supernatural goal is union with God by faith and love in this life and supernaturally in heaven.

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