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The Seven Sacraments

And because of the transgression of the first man, the whole stock of the human race was tainted; no one can be set free from the state of the old Adam save through Christ's sacrament of Baptism.

- St. Leo I the Great, Letter 15, July 21, 447

Since God is the knower of the heart, at no time must penance be denied to him who asks for it.

- St. Celestine I, Letter to the Bishops of Vienne and Narbonne, 428

There is a difference between the food of the body and that of the soul (Holy Eucharist), that whereas the former is changed into our substance, the latter changes us into its own.

-Leo XIII, Mira Caritatis, May 28, 1902