[bronx2]

While Christ is our eternal salvation He becomes our end . The means to Christ is the grace He distributes through the sacraments of His Bride the Church. Without the assistance of Christ's graces the attaining of the end is impossible .It is not enough to wallow in sinful pride limited to your imperfect interpretations of scripture . This narrow vision is tantamount of saying Christ is limited. Seek these graces and you will find knock and these graces will be made available to you.

Jesus said He came not to change the Law so your example of freedom is ill advised. Reading Sacred Scripture with limited cognitive abilities is no excuse for wanton misappropriation of its meaning. Only the misinformed possessing little power of discernment would claim that most Catholics believe Mary or other saints paid the price for our sins. You would be well advised to hone your ability to discern lest you make rash judgment against your neighbor.

[caww]

Jesus said HE is the ‘Alpha and Omega’...’the Beginning and the End.’...The ‘First and the Last’.... ‘Who is..who was..and is to come’.... Not the rituals we perform to somehow gain His abiding in us. He is our all and all. and we are complete in Him..and that not of ourselves or anything which we do.

Your definitions of Grace and mine differ. You seem to see His Grace thru rituals..I see Grace thru Him from God to Us.... “It's Grace that has kept me safe thus far and Grace will lead me home”....His Grace not the Graces you speak of.

You stated,.. “Seek these graces and you will find knock and these graces will be made available to you.”5

But Jesus speaking in Rev.3:20 states...”Here I am, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me.”....... This is fellowship with Him..a relationship He desires as He is the one knocking at the door of our hearts. He is pursuing us...He is inviting us individually.

Further John writes...in Rev.1:5....”To him who loves us and has ‘freed’ us from our sins by His blood, and has made us a kingdom and ‘priests’ to serve His God and Father”... thus we are not only free but are a priesthood unto Him..and He is the great High Priest over us all.

Additionally Christ fulfilled the Law and the requirements we could never meet. We are no longer under the Law...or Christ's death otherwise becomes null and void. If what we do somehow is suppose to pave the way for us then there was no reason for Him to die.

We walk now by faith...”The just shall live by faith”...We can trust Him to lead us...we can trust Him to show us what He requires of us....now if you see that He is telling you to take communion believing you are somehow taking Him in over and over and over again...why go at it then. But I am saying If we have Christ in us the work of salvation is complete. Does that mean we just do what we want whenever we want? Of course not...but when we receive Christ we find our desires change....what we want changes,...where we go and what we do changes, because it is now His spirit which lives in us...we are new creatures in Christ.