The seed of the word, which the hand of God nourishes, always brings forth its fruit. The grace of Jesus Christ is a strong, powerful, supreme, invincible grace, that is, the operation of the omnipotent Will, the consequence and imitation of the operation of God causing the incarnation and the resurrection of His Son. The harmony of the all powerful operation of God in the heart of man with the free consent of mans will is demonstrated, therefore, to us in the Incarnation, as in the fount and archetype of all other operations of mercy and grace, all of which are as gratuitous and as dependent on God as the original operation itself. God Himself has taught us the idea of the omnipotent working of His grace, signifying it by that operation which produces creatures from nothing and which restores life to the dead. No graces are granted except through faith.
Faith is the first grace and the source of all others.
The first grace which God grants to the sinner is the remission of sin. Outside of the Church, no grace is granted. All whom God wishes to save through Christ. are infallibly saved. Jesus Christ surrendered Himself to death to free forever from the hand of the exterminating angel, by His blood, the first born, that is, the elect. The grace of Adam produced nothing except human merit.