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Catholic Word of the Day: PREVENTING GRACE, 09-18-13
CatholicReference.net ^ | 09-18-13 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

Posted on 09/18/2013 8:37:50 AM PDT by Salvation

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PREVENTING GRACE

The grace that goes before the free consent of the will. It moves the will spontaneously, inclining it to God. A preventing grace may be a good thought or a good impulse, without human effort, to perform some action that leads to heaven.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.



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We have all experienced this, I bet. Did you ever get an impulse to call or email someone, and then you find out that they were thinking of doing the same thing?
1 posted on 09/18/2013 8:37:50 AM PDT by Salvation
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2 posted on 09/18/2013 8:40:55 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

The word you are looking for is prevenient grace. I suspect spell check did you in.


3 posted on 09/18/2013 12:54:03 PM PDT by Wicket (God bless and protect our troops and God bless America)
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To: Wicket

That makes sense. It was the website that popped this up. I’m going to go back and look for prevenient


4 posted on 09/18/2013 1:36:34 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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