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::And this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.—Romans 5:5
 
::And this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.—Romans 5:5
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:Now grace is something always given by Love, the Love through which all free gifts are given.  We know the Holy Spirit is spiritually ''in'' the free gift of Love and consequently in all the free gifts he gives. And while the Holy Spirit's most characteristic free gift of God's self is ''sanctifying'' grace, it also applies to special graces like that pertaining to water baptism, in this case,  
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:Now grace is something always given by Love, the Love through which all free gifts are given by God.  We know the Holy Spirit is spiritually ''in'' the free gift of Love and consequently in all the free gifts he gives. And while the Holy Spirit's most characteristic free gift of God's self is ''sanctifying'' grace, it also applies to special graces like that pertaining to water baptism, in this case,  
    
::ordered to a certain spiritual regeneration by which man dies to vice and becomes a member of Christ....—(Thomas Aquinas [1274]. "Treatise on the Sacraments." ''Summa Theologica'')
 
::ordered to a certain spiritual regeneration by which man dies to vice and becomes a member of Christ....—(Thomas Aquinas [1274]. "Treatise on the Sacraments." ''Summa Theologica'')
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