"God's incredible love, His redemptive plan and His invitation for us to boldly proclaim our faith in Him – symbolized through the act of baptism," he said. Christine Rousselle is a lifestyle ...

“Let us ask the Lord that they grow in faith ... let’s ask our parents and godparents the date of our baptism,” he said to hundreds of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Today’s feast is a time to reflect not only on the Lord’s baptism but on our own. In an extended sense, when Christ is baptized, so are we, for we are members of his body (Ephesians 5:30).

Jesus’ baptism was a manifestation of God’s humility: not only did he take upon himself in the incarnation our humanity, he assumed, without himself sinning, the burden and consequences of our ...

A. Baptism was instituted, very probably, about the time Our Lord was baptized by St. John, and its reception was commanded when after His resurrection Our Lord said to His Apostles: "All power is ...

On this Sunday’s feast, the Baptism of the Lord, the same reading directs our attention not to anticipation but to fulfillment, to the one who has already arrived on the scene, the Christ whom ...

This coming Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. The question the Christ in Our Neighborhood ...