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But in what, exactly, does one's being decisively called consist? It does not consist simply in one's being called to authentic existence, since both the implicitly called and the explicitly called are, in their respectively different ways, also called to that. It consists, rather, in one's being called both to the effective use and to the valid administration of the primal sacrament of the Christian religion, viz., Jesus Christ. Implied by this call, of course, is also the call both to use and to administer validly administer the primary sacrament of the Christian religion, viz., the visible church, together with such other secondary sacraments as it in turn constitutes.

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