SUMMARY

1. Only God can make us holy like himself.  The free gift of the Holy Spirit of God is called grace.

2. As plants by a river have all the water they need, so members of the Church can get all the grace they need by means of the Sacraments of the Church.

3. Those who do not belong to the Church and have not the Sacraments can get grace only at odd times, like desert plants which are watered only by occasional showers of rain.

References

1. ©The Archbishops’ Council (2000) Common Worship.  Collects and Post Communions for Sundays, Principal Holy Days and Festivals.  Trinity and Ordinary Time.  Available from:
http://www.cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/collects/contemp/postwhit.html  (Accessed 23 August 2010) (Internet).

2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2008) Egypt, Nile Delta and Sinai from MODIS.  Available from:
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/54000/54842/Egypt.A2000060.0855.900x1175.jpg (Accessed 14 April 2012) (Internet).