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Day 166: Introduction to Baptism

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Gift of Grace

Gift because it's conferred on those who bring nothing of their own, which is completely true. One of the reasons we know we can baptize infants. Why? Because they bring nothing on their own. It goes on to say grace, since it is given even to the guilty. I love the way in which St. Gregory of Nazianzis says why do we call it gift, grace, anointing, enlightenment, grommered of immortality, bath of rebirth, seal and most precious gift?"

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