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Previously called the Roman Catechism, The Catechism of the Council of Trent is considered by many to be the most important Catholic catechism. Although originally designed as a resource for parish priests to provide instruction, it is now used extensively by laypeople as a source of core Catholic theology. It contains the basic tenets of the Catholic faith, providing clear explanations of what...

by the faith which we profess in baptism the heart is illumined: Call to remembrance, says the apostle, alluding to the time of baptism, the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions.y Chrysostom, in his sermon to the baptized, calls it moreover a purgation, because through baptism we purge out the old leaven, that we may be a new lump,z also a burial, a planting, and the cross of Christ;a the reasons for all which appellations may be gathered from
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