Daily Thought For May 20, 2017

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Living Out Our Baptism!

 The Most Holy Trinity gives the baptized sanctifying grace, the grace of justification: 

 — enabling them to believe in God, to hope in him, and to love him through the theological virtues;

 — giving them the power to live and act under the prompting of the Holy Spirit through the gifts of the Holy Spirit;

 — allowing them to grow in goodness through the moral virtues.

 Thus the whole organism of the Christian’s supernatural life has its roots in Baptism.

 Catholic Church. (2000). Catechism of the Catholic Church (2nd Ed., p. 322). Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference. #1266

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