Reflections on Intercession

Free will means that the grace can always be rejected, and also intrinsically that it involves and involves the individual's own choice.

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That's why Calvinism, in order to bolster its double predestination, had to deny human free will and assert irresistible grace. The Catholic position is the contrary on both counts though we do believe that God predestines the elect, while not eliminating their free will. I don't believe, then, that we are responsible in some profound or direct way for a soul going to hell because we didn't pray hard enough for them, though we can always do more in any situation.

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In one of my Facebook threads, someone made the following comment: Prayer and penance and love assuredly help them along the road, but ultimately each individual decides and each is accountable before God for their actions and beliefs: I think we must simultaneously accept the following two truths: We encourage a lively and honest discussion of our content.

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Reflections on Intercession

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The faith that was required by them was fueled by love. Love brought them to act in those ways, and in some ways, rather unconventionally. I think we underestimate very often this dynamic power of love. When we raise to God the needs of others, or mouth out our intercessions for them at the designated part of the liturgy at Sunday Mass, how much of our attention is given over to truly loving those for whom we are praying for?

If anything makes a difference, it has to be love.

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After all, when we tell someone that we are praying for them, what we are assuring them is that we love them — love them enough to want to also feel their pain, touch their anxieties, experience their uncertainties, fears and concerns. And part of the power of intercessory prayers for others is precisely the unspoken power of love. In doing this, we are also exercising compassion. We are suffering with them, even when it is not enunciated. We are telling them that they are not alone.