This new life in Christ begins in the sacrament of baptism. However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament.

Brunner dismissed these arguments as “biblicist” but suggested keeping infant baptism as a sign pointing to Christ. Others ask if Brunner’s views were “biblicist” enough. The Lutherans ...

Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine blessing, who called himself the living water, and who, with water, established Baptism for our sake as the ...

Baptism was not a new idea. There is evidence that a monastic group called the Essenes used baptism at their monastery at Qumran as a type of ritual cleansing. Qumran was in the Jordan wilderness ...

Incorporation into the Church By receiving baptism, a person becomes a member of the Christian community. They become part of the Body of Christ, which is the Church, and gain the right to ...

Cardinal Vincent Nichols delivered this homily today for the Chrism Mass at Westminster Cathedral.In this solemn Mass of Chrism, our eyes are firmly fixed on the person of Jesus, the anointed one, the ...

For a Christian the most important thing that happens is that they meet the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a personal encounter which is a life-changing thing. And baptism is a public declaration.