Grace Cathedral, San Francisco Bay as the centerpiece of the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition. The carillon was first played from its Singing Tower home on Christmas Eve, 1940, and was formally dedicated in 1943. The bells have been rung to mark a number of important events, including D-Day and the centenary of the San Francisco cable car system. Photographer Ansel Adams produced a series of photographs of the uncompleted cathedral in 1935. "Grace Cathedral Park" is the first song on Red House Painters' first self-titled album. "Grace Cathedral Hill" is Track 7 on The Decemberists' "Castaways and Cutouts" album. It recounts a New
Grace in Christianity God is first on his own initiative, and then follows man's free acting through his collaboration, so that the merit of good works is to be attributed in the first place to the grace of God, then to the faithful. Man's merit, moreover, itself is due to God, for his good actions proceed in Christ, from the predispositions and assistance given by the Holy Spirit. ... The charity of Christ is the source in us of all our merits before God. Grace, by uniting us to Christ in active love, ensures the supernatural quality of our acts and consequently their