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Salvation Requires Our Cooperation



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While the whole human race was redeemed by Jesus’ Passion and Death, not a single soul was saved by this Infinite sacrifice…The fright comes from the fact that we who have already been redeemed can yet be damned.  Redemption is an accomplished fact; salvation for us is still only a possibility.  Salvation is a matter of cooperation.  Jesus does not do it alone!

(From God, A Woman and The Way by Rev. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O.)

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