Catechesis: Ap XXVII MONASTIC VOWS

As Bernard also says very powerfully, “First of all, you must believe you cannot have forgiveness of sins except by God’s indulgence; second, that you cannot have any good work at all unless he has given this too; finally, that by no works can you merit eternal life, but that this freely given as well.” Ap XXVII:32 [citing from Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermon on the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.]