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This is so not only because infant- baptism obscures the normal image of the personal encounter with Christ and the decision for Christ that take place in every sacrament thus making of it merely an opus operatum, but also because all Christian existence is henceforth grounded upon a fact which is quasi-natural because it is not initially ratified by the subject.

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On such grounds was justified the transition of a baptism which began as a spontaneous act of [v. 03 p. 0367] self-consecration into an _opus operatum_.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

Like many other under-graduates of every man's acquaintance, Hurst laboured under the delusion, that holding two sets of reins in a very confused manner, and flourishing a long whip, was driving; and that to get twenty miles out of Oxford in a "team," without an upset, or an imposition from the proctor, was an _opus operatum_ of the highest possible merit.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

The apostle, whose antipathy to ritual in every shape is stamped upon all his writings, who thanks God that he baptized very few of the Corinthians, who declares that 'Christ sent him not to baptize but to preach the Gospel', is accused of regarding baptism as 'an _opus operatum_ which secures a man's admission into the kingdom apart from the character of his future conduct'.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

Baptism for him is no _opus operatum_, but a ceremony of social significance, a symbol conditioning a deeper experience of divine grace, already embraced by faith.

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Deus glorificatus est, et Scripturae vere divinae creditae sunt, omnibus eandem et eisdem verbis et eisdem nominibus recitantibus ab initio usque ad finem, uti et praesentes gentes cognoscerent quoniam per inspirationem Dei interpretatae sunt Scripturae, et non esset mirabile Deum hoc in eis operatum: quando in ea captivitate populi quae facta est a

Pens��es 1623-1662 1944

The Catholic poet loses this anxious sense of his own moods in the consciousness of the opus operatum calling on him only for faith and thankfulness and adoration.

Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

It is this opus operatum in one or other of its aspects or symbols, the Cross, the name of Christ, the Incarnation, the Eucharist, the life of the saint or death of the martyr, which is the theme of all Crashaw's ardent and coloured, sensuous and conceited odes, composed in irregular rhythms which rise and fall like a sparkling fountain.

Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

Or another: what part worship plays in our salvation (the problem known in theology as opus operatum)?

The Agony of the Church (1917) Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918

But to this special sacrificial activity of the Church, offering up the sacrifice together with Christ, must also correspond a special ecclesiastico-human merit as a fruit, which, although in itself an opus operantis of the Church, is yet entirely independent of the worthiness of the celebrant and the faithful and therefore constitutes for these an opus operatum.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913