"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 ...

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 ...

During the "Baptism of Christ" ritual, a 40-year-old Russian woman jumped into an ice hole cut into the Oredez River. It's evident from a video online that just before jumping, she made the sign ...

AN ARTICLE that I read recently called the baptism of Jesus “a delicate problem of apologetics”. To understand Luke’s version, we must decide whether he is using Mark only, or another source as well.

A. St. John the Baptist did not institute the Sacrament of Baptism, for Christ alone could institute a Sacrament. The baptism given by St. John had the effect of a Sacramental; that is ...

Today’s feast is a time to reflect not only on the Lord’s baptism but on our own. In an extended sense, when Christ is baptized, so are we, for we are members of his body (Ephesians 5:30).

John preaches a baptism of conversion ... St. Paul, our first witness to this new presence of Christ, insisted that he did no more than preach what he had been taught. Put into our new parlance ...

Among them were around 100 priests and 15 bishops from several countries. Baptism Church is located where Christ was baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan River: highlights from Register ...

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 on Jan. 12.