Ad a Latin Rite Catholic, do you believe you are yet saved, or are you hoping your works can measure up by the time deth or the Rapture arrives?
I am saved by the atoning suffering and death of my Savior and given the hope of the eternal life by His Resurrection. Any and all “works” which I perform are to conform my will more closely to His.
The Catholic Church does not teach salvation through works. It does, in fact, regard salvation through works as a heresy. Yet Protestants continually bleat like an ipod stuck on repeat. Do you realize how foolish it is to dully insist on something that is demonstrably false? You can’t make a falsehood true by monotonously repeating it.