Actual Grace

it is granted by God for the performance of salutary acts and is present and disappears with the action itself.

but habitual grace, which causes a state of holiness, so that the mutual relations between these two kinds of grace are the relation between action and state. study and knowledge.

subjectively, grace signifies good will, benevolence(act of kindness)

objectively, it designates every favor which proceeds from this benevolence and, consequently, every gratuitous gift

As the recipient of graces experiences, on his part, sentiments of gratefulness, and expresses these sentiments in thanks