“Al-Maghtas” is Arabic for “immersion,” commonly translated in the ecclesial context to “baptism.” The project has been underway for a long time; Pope Benedict XVI laid the cornerstone ...

A. In the first ages of the Church, baptism of water was given in three ways, namely, by immersion or dipping, by aspersion or sprinkling, and by infusion or pouring. Although any of these methods ...

What is the significance of the Baptism of the Lord? According to St Gregory of Nazianzus, Jesus’ immersion in water symbolises the Light of Christ burying humanity’s sinful nature. Through the Spirit ...

I remember the planning that went into it. I was a 15year old on-fire-for-Jesus Christian who had a holy encounter with God at a church camp. Typical stuff. I was convinced that God was wanting me to ...

Baptism is performed in the most expressive way by triple immersion in the baptismal water. However, from ancient times it has also been able to be conferred by pouring the water three times over ...

Baptism in early times was done by immersion. As the person goes down to the water with the stain of his sins, he “drowns” and “dies” to his old self. When he rises from the water, he becomes a new ...

"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 ...

by immersion, who then baptized the others. It was considered illegal by the semi-sovereign canton of Zurich, then one of three regions of the Swiss Confederation. The following year, on March 7, 1526 ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square.

"Baptism literally means complete immersion and it is the outward sign of an inward change whereby one publicly declares they belong and identify with Jesus Christ usually done after one becomes a ...