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When Our Sunday Visitor editor, Father Patrick Briscoe, OP, and I conceived of this periodic column, we decided to call it “Grace is Everywhere” (the name of the column in the printed newspaper). The purpose of the column is to suggest, analyze and comment upon various ways in which God’s grace is communicated through truth, beauty and goodness, commonly known as the three transcendentals. I have used the column to write about film, TV, literature, popular music and sports among other topics.
I have discussed the presence of grace in things that are not Catholic or even more broadly Christian. This is because whatever is true, beautiful and good is a participation in the mind of God and, therefore, grace-bearing. If it is from God, it is true, beautiful and good; if it is true, beautiful and good, it is from God. Nothing that comes from God is otherwise; and there is no source of truth, beauty and goodness other than God.
This is not to diminish the salvific grace that is communicated in the seven sacraments, of course. Our celebration of grace everywhere should never be considered a substitute for the grace found in the specific sacramental practices of the Church. But the graces to be found in common expressions of the transcendentals may be both precursors to and tutors in the growth toward the fullness of faith.
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I have discussed the presence of grace in things that are not Catholic or even more broadly Christian. This is because whatever is true, beautiful and good is a participation in the mind of God and, therefore, grace-bearing. If it is from God, it is true, beautiful and good; if it is true, beautiful and good, it is from God. Nothing that comes from God is otherwise; and there is no source of truth, beauty and goodness other than God.
This is not to diminish the salvific grace that is communicated in the seven sacraments, of course. Our celebration of grace everywhere should never be considered a substitute for the grace found in the specific sacramental practices of the Church. But the graces to be found in common expressions of the transcendentals may be both precursors to and tutors in the growth toward the fullness of faith.
Continued below.
My daughter's remarkable Oxford wedding reveals grace in all things
One writer’s experience of an Oxford, England, wedding showed that grace is, indeed, everywhere.
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