Salvation Seminar Week 1.       “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God – not because of works, lest any man should boast” ( Eph 2:8-9 ).       In the Catholic Liturgy, and the several Scriptural readings at Mass, salvation is mentioned so frequently, and in so many aspects, that it can slip by us if we do not take time to notice.       For example, last Sunday’s Opening Prayer begins, “Keep your family safe, O Lord, with unfailing care, that, relying solely on the hope of heavenly grace, they may be defended always by your protection.”       Safety, care, defense, protection – all aspects of our salvation, an implication of some harm we are saved from. Yet in that short prayer, the most direct reference to salvation is in the word “family.” We are God’s “family.” Our salvation is in our adoption into God’s family as sons and daughter...