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Originally posted by Theodoric
However, and I'm probably incorrect here, isn't Grace something that you don't deserve but which is freely given to you by God? So how is it possible for you to attain it by your own acts?
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Indeed you do not attain grace by your acts. You can go before the throne of grace
because he has given his grace, not in order to prove you've done something to make you worth of it.
Grace as God's gift makes a nonsense of another Catholic habit - that of doing penance after confession in order to secure forgiveness.