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To paraphrase Mother Teresa ... but in our own baptism, we too are claimed as God’s own and filled with the Spirit to fulfill whatever is asked of us. Lord Jesus, you were the one whom ...

Baptism was instituted, very probably, about the time Our Lord was baptized by St. John ... but also agree to bring the child up in the Catholic religion. But if a child is surely dying, we ...

Baptism is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and the first of the sacraments of Christian initiation, followed by Confirmation and the Eucharist. According to the Holy Scriptures ...

Twenty Catholic and evangelical Protestant scholars ... the practice of sound biblical preaching, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and faithful Christian living.” On the second mark, “holy ...

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Beijing (Agenzia Fides) – ‘Scrutiny’ for catechumens preparing to receive Baptism, along with pilgrimages, works of charity, and sharing: this is how many Chinese Catholic communities ... to "draw ...