the faith as otherworldly or purely cerebral—the water of baptism pushes hard against such tendencies. This place, here—this ground, this water—is holy. But this is just half the story. In Lathrop’s ...

30 Through the Holy Spirit, Baptism is a bath that purifies, justifies, and sanctifies. 31 1228 Hence Baptism is a bath of water in which the "imperishable seed" of the Word of God produces its ...

A. Solemn baptism is given with consecrated water; that is, water mixed with holy oil and blessed for baptism on Holy Saturday and on the Saturday before Pentecost. It is always kept in the ...

Tests indicated 86 percent of the holy water, commonly used in baptism ceremonies and to wet congregants' lips, was infected with common bacteria found in fecal matter such as E. coli, enterococci ...

This is confirmation season. While some of our candidates receive this great sacrament in the fall or winter, the vast ...

Throughout church history a few marginal movements have denied the propriety and significance of water baptism by their exclusive emphasis on the Holy Spirit’s baptism of believers. But the ...

"You were part of the largest water baptism in American history," Francey told the crowd ... a date that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles in the Christian tradition.

and he smiled and doused me with holy water, a welcome traditional Trappist monk’s blessing for the end of the day and for safety through the night. A sprinkling of water is a form of baptism ...