Dr. Beckwith on "Good Works"
Here's a snippet from Chapter 6 of Return to Rome.
"As I have said, the purpose of good works for the Catholic is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you. The Catholic already believes that he or she is an adopted child of God wholly by God's grace. For the practicing Catholic, good works, including participating in the sacraments, works of charity, and prayer, are not for the purpose of earning heaven. For good works are not meant to pay off a debt in the Catholic scheme of things. Rather, good works prepare us for heaven by shaping our character and keep us in communion with God so that we may be "holy and blameless and irreproachable before him" (Col 1:22)
"As I have said, the purpose of good works for the Catholic is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you. The Catholic already believes that he or she is an adopted child of God wholly by God's grace. For the practicing Catholic, good works, including participating in the sacraments, works of charity, and prayer, are not for the purpose of earning heaven. For good works are not meant to pay off a debt in the Catholic scheme of things. Rather, good works prepare us for heaven by shaping our character and keep us in communion with God so that we may be "holy and blameless and irreproachable before him" (Col 1:22)
posted by Russ Rentler, M.D. | 10:42 AM
4 Comments:
"...get heaven into you..." Spot On! Allow me to share with you a link to St. Benedict's Rule: he devoted an entire chapter of his rule to the whats and whys of good works titled, appropriately enough, "The Instruments of Good Works".
http://www.monksok.org/chap4a.html
There are 5 parts and to see the whole chapter and commentary just click at the bottom of the page for the next bit.
Happy New Year!
thanks for the link.
I will check out your site as well !
God bless you too and Happy New Year!
I would like to give that book a read. I heard this news a while back... I didn't realize he was a revert though. I thought He just made the jump!
I appreciated this statement to. I think you have said similar things before no?
Much love to you Russ!
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Send me your address privately George and maybe you will find a late Christmas present Santa has for you. contact me at dobrodoc1(at)gmail.com
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