When it comes to the Catholic understanding of salvation, the first step is a realization of grace. God has to have done something for salvation to be possible. As a result, our first response to God is acknowledging just what that something is. This "knowing" is our first act of cooperation with grace by which we receive the blessing of God by faith.

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