Catechism Paragraph 2000
Part 3:
LIFE IN CHRIST
Section 1: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Chapter 3: GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
Article 2: GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
Section 1: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Chapter 3: GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND GRACE
Article 2: GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
Sanctifying grace is an habitual gift, a stable and supernatural disposition that perfects the soul itself to enable it to live with God, to act by his love. Habitual grace, the permanent disposition to live and act in keeping with God's call, is distinguished from actual graces which refer to God's interventions, whether at the beginning of conversion or in the course of the work of sanctification.