What are actual graces?
They are “helps” from God which enlighten the mind and strengthen the will to do good and avoid evil. “My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity.” (2 Corinthians 12:9). Actual graces come and go, but Sanctifying Grace remains in the soul. Sanctifying Grace is LIFE, actual grace is HELP. 20. Can you resist actual graces? Unfortunately, yes, for you are free, and God does not force you to use them. “And we helping do exhort you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain.” (2 Corinthians 6:1). Lesson 12: Purgatory “And the day following Judas came with his company, to take away the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen, in the sepulchres of their fathers. And they found under the coats of the slain, some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain. Then they all blessed the just judgment of the Lord, who had discovered the things th
