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

baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” In the sacrament of Baptism, holy water is the material substance used by God to effect the remission of sins.

and of the sacrament of Baptism, in which we were born of water and the Holy Spirit. Whenever, therefore, we are sprinkled with this holy water or use it in blessing ourselves upon entering the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Fourth Gospel, on the other hand, the teaching, though drawn against the background of the earthly ... Mark says that after the baptism the Holy Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness ...

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 ...

Parents who prefer not to baptize their children in the hopes that they will "understand and ask for baptism" as adults lack faith that the Holy Spirit will ... immersed in water is a common ...

In Orthodox tradition, baptism includes three full submersions (or immersions) into a baptismal font filled with holy water – each submersion for Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Threefold ...

In Acts 2:38-41 alone we learn that baptism brings: (1) “forgiveness of sins;” (2) the indwelling of the Holy Spirit ... along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said ...