"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the baptism of Jesus Christ — celebrated in the Catholic faith with a ...

Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of ...

In his Summa Theologica, St Thomas Aquinas emphasises that Christ's baptism signifies the beginning of His ministry, during which He preached repentance and the Kingdom of God. Aquinas further ...

In Luke’s Gospel, Jesus’s baptism happens just before he is driven into the desert to be tempted by Satan. That is quite a scene-change. At this point in the Gospel, Luke is working at speed: the ...

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,... [1 Peter 3:20 ...

By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing ... and voice of God” through the humanity of Jesus Christ and through other baptized people.

That’s an important part of the symbolism of baptism: that we go down into the place of death, the deep waters where man cannot live, to rise again. We are baptized into the death of Christ ...

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Early in 2001, as three of us were busy making plans for a new congregation, I wrote to pastors of congregations dually affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Alliance of Baptists (as was ...