Even in the natural order, no created agent acts or operates without the cooperation of God, first Mover of bodies and spirits. In this sense, St. Paul says in his discourse on the Areopagus: "Although He (God) be not far from every one of us; for in Him we live and move and are." (1) With even greater reason in the supernatural order, that we may produce acts of the infused virtues and of the gifts, we need a divine motion, which is called actual grace- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life. Vol.1. (St.Louis:Herder Book, 1947), #.
Garrigou-Lagrange talks about the necessity of actual grace. This is significant because in order to talk about the meaning of blessings, and "exciting pious devotion" or even a more precise "disposition", we need to know the meaning of actual grace.
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