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Questions / Salvation, heaven and hell

What is grace?

Church teaching

Answered on video by The Thomistic Institute (Dominican friars)

Video: Grace: Kinds and Refusal (Aquinas 101), The Thomistic Institute, published May 11, 2020. Checked 10 October 2026. Loads from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) only when you press play. Watch on YouTube

In short: God’s free, undeserved help to answer His call and become His child. CCC 1996

The answer, in writing

Church teaching

Grace is favor: the free and undeserved help God gives us to respond to His call to become His children and share His life. CCC 1996

Our words

Grace is God doing in you what you can’t do on your own. Ask for it every day.

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Sources on this page

How we know · 1 Catechism paragraph
  1. Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 1996 (official text on vatican.va).

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