To be a follower of the Crucified Christ means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
Elisabeth Elliot

Good Works

Good Works

GOOD WORKS

BASIC R.C. BELIEF

Good works inspired by faith in Christ are necessary for salvation (RADIO REPLIES), Priests Rumble and Carty).

POST VATICAN II

From VERBUM, Fall, 1989 re new seminarians, “Giving Their All To Gain Heaven.”

From footnotes of Catholic translation New American Bible, Revised New Testament, Matthew 22:11,13. “A wedding garment: the repentance, change of heart and mind, that is the condition for entrance into the kingdom (3:2, 4:17) must be continued in a life of good deeds (7:21-23). Wailing and grinding of teeth: the Christian who lacks the wedding garment of good deeds will suffer the same fate as those Jews who have rejected Jesus.”

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

The Bible teaches that good works follow salvation, and are the normal result of true faith in Christ (Titus 3:5-8).