This year there is no shortage of candidates willing to go through this electoral baptism by fire and ice.

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But only if that sacrifice is accepted by a Christian through the process of Baptism and the Sacraments.

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The faith had remained intact through the gifts of grace that had gladdened the life of a laity who had received only baptism and had also lived their apostolic mission in virtue of baptism alone.

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