The Secret Power of Divine Grace

Nicholas Hughes, a 26-year-old MBA student at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota reacts to Newman’s sermon “The Secret Power of Divine Grace” highlighting how we all have a deep desire for happiness. However, the objects that we worship must be worthy of the immortal, the Divine life. We easily dismiss those things beyond our physical comprehension accepting only what we can see and touch leading to the need for proof of everything in our lives. Yet at our disposal are various faculties enabling us to encounter “the glance of Christ”. Nicholas describes how “the secret power of God, without observation, acts on the hearts of men”. God’s secret grace is operative within us and within His Church to fulfill His mission of love for us. Unless we are partakers of the supernatural life we labor in vain. The only things that are purposeful are those of God. Unless our enterprises are more than human it is but foolishness and vanity. 

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