Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Sacrae Theologiae Summa on Water Baptism and 1 Corinthians 12:13

  

By this regeneration and sanctification another effect of baptism is produced, namely, incorporation in the mystical Body of Christ. For, By one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jew or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13); and this is with all the rights pertaining to the community of the faithful, namely, participation in all the other sacraments. For, by the washing of the regeneration of baptism, those born to natural life are not only reborn to the life of grace, but they also receive the character and become capable of receiving the other sacraments. (Joseph A. de Aldama, Severino Gonzalez, Francis A P. Sola, and Joseph F. Sagües, Sacrae Theologiae Summa, 4 vols. [trans. Kenneth Baker; Keep the Faith, Inc., 2015], 4-A: 184)