Of God and His Creatures

Even in the sinner the habits of faith and hope, as also all actual graces, common to the just and the unjust, may be put under gratia gratum faciens, inasmuch as they tend to the sanctification of the recipient more directly than to the general edification of the Church, which is the purpose of gratia gratis data. Besides extraordinary miraculous gifts, there would come under gratia gratis data the ordinary powers that go with the Sacrament of Order.


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