I’m sorry you don’t claim the gifts of God that He clearly has said were gifts to us. Praise His name!
I’m sorry you don’t claim the gifts of God that He clearly has said were gifts to us. Praise His name!
You see, you illustrate the differences again. Catholics do not name it and claim it. They accept the freely given Grace of God.
We don't grab it; we don't wrest it; we don't snatch it; we don't demand it; and we certainly don't claim it.
We are beggars at God's banquest and we humbly beg Him for what He may bestow upon us. We do not prate of our salvation for that is only His to give. Rather, we accept whatever the Righteous Judge decides to give to us:
Luke 11: 11Then he said, “A man had two sons, 12and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the property between them. 13After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation.g 14When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need. 15So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine. 16And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any. 17Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger. 18I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.”’ 20So he got up and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. 21His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’
We are the prodigal sons. We deserve nothing and throw ourselves upon the mercy of the Merciful One. We pray for salvation.