September 30, 2012 – Catechism 1846 – 1851

Where sin is increased, we have grace all the more.  This might seem like something that is hard to believe, but if you have ever watch someone convert from a deep dark life, you know how much grace was around them during their sin.  The issue is that grace needs a crack to break through.  Grace cannot get through a solid wall.  If grace can set itself in that crack, then it will begin to work and, like a crack in a dam, it will work its way into the person’s heart.  But there does need to be that crack. 

I think there may be some that think the Passion is exaggerated.  If you believe that what Christ accomplished by His Passion was to permanently defeat sin and death and made Satan ultimately powerless, if you believe that He opened up Heaven for all when that gate was shut before, then wouldn’t you think that Satan would throw everything he could at Christ to stop it.  If anything, it is probably downplayed.  This is the moment when sin sees its ultimate conclusion and it would have done anything to stop this from happening.  Everything was thrown at Christ.  It cannot be exaggerated what Christ went through for us.