7 1216 "This bath is called enlightenment , because those who receive this [catechetical] instruction are enlightened in their understanding . . . ." 8 Having received in Baptism the Word ...

When veteran Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness met Micheál Martin and Simon Harris on the main stairs of Leinster House on ...

but then the baptism must be given conditionally; that is, before pronouncing the words of baptism, you must say: "If I can baptize thee in this way, I baptize thee in the name of the Father," etc.

As a member of the local ministerial group, I volunteered to write the reflections for the month of February. It’s my favorite month of the year. My husband and I will celebrate our 56th wedding ...

He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him. (Luke 5:15) ...

Jesus’ baptism, in other words, presaged the act of costly but life-giving solidarity by which the long-awaited Messiah would liberate us, not by the sword, as expected, but by the Cross.

"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 ...

At the end of his Jan. 29 catechesis on the theme of 'Jesus Christ Our Hope,' the Pope said all Christians are called to ...

Baptism is a New Testament event, and it is one of the sacraments that Christ established ... “They replied, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.’ Then they spoke ...

After baptism there is the anointing with chrism ... We have just heard in the Gospel the words that rang out from heaven when Jesus was baptized by John in the River Jordan.

Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards youngest daughter, Lola, recently got baptized and publicly declared Jesus as Savior, ...