Actual and habitual grace; Bellarmine's 'grace of special help'
Thesis XVI. The Roman School divides the grace that makes pleasing into actual and habitual grace, or, which comes to nearly the same thing, into permanent grace and the grace of special help, as Bellarmine prefers to put it (De gratia et libero arbitrio, book 1, chapter 2).
There is in fact some difference to be noted between actual grace and this grace of special help. The grace of special help means not our good actions themselves but rather a kind of principle of them, whereas our good works are themselves a kind of actual grace and fall under that term.
Latin
XVI. Caeterum gratiam gratum facientem Schola Romana dividit in gratiam actualem, & gratiam habitualem, seu quod pene eodem recidit, in gratiam permanentem, & gratiam Auxilii specialis, ut mavult loqui Bellarm. lib. 1. de Gratia & libero Arbitrio cap. 2. Et revera discrimen aliquod notari potest inter gratiam actualem, & inter gratiam istam auxilii specialis. Nam per gratiam quae dicitur auxilii specialis, non ipsae bonae actiones nostrae, sed potius eorum quoddam principium significatur: bona vero nostra opera sunt gratia quaedam actualis, & sub ea comprehenduntur.