Then everything else comes from the Father including your faith? Be careful what you agree to. ;O)
Yes, every good and half-way decent gift comes from above. My choice of God, such as it is, my "work" of faith is his gift, enabled, born along by His grace. The "merit" consequent on the "work" is also His gift.
Every time I say this, speaking after the Fathers, Protestants act like I"m doing something unprecedented. If I say it again in a couple of months, there will be the same shock and surprise, followed by a careful (but fruitless) attempt at cutting me out of the Catholic herd. I will be to Catholics as Obama is, in Biden's mind, to black people, "clean and articulate," ALMOST suitable for admission to the Protestant parlor.
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Because we Catholics refuse to confine God to our understanding, we can say what I just said and also speak of free will and merit. The most militant Reformers seize upon the latter and refuse to believe what we have said since before Augustine and through Aquinas, that it ALL comes from from Grace. It's as if the minute we say "work" or "merit" their minds stop working and they begin advising us to be careful.
I have written recently in this thread of a God whose power is so great that is rules in weakness and whose sovereignty is so vast that instead of enslaving it liberates. I wrote earlier of another notion of freedom other than the Nominalist (and silly) idea of freedom as a random choice between alternatives so that neither the goodness of one would attract nor the evil of the other repel. The idea, whose age alone ought to bring it some respect, was largely ignored.
Very well, let it be ignored. But don't expect me to take very seriously the thoughtfulness of those who ignore it.
Everything good is from God. Every good act "of mine" is not "of mine." If I seem to be the locus of a good act, it is because for a moment the truth of the statement "Now I live, yet not I but Christ lives in me," is apparent, and in me by His grace, Christ graciously did a good thing.