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 ...

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

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 ...

Let us look at the first baptism after the Great ... [47] Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptised, which have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?” They were baptised ...

The ornithological metaphor is usually traced back to Luke 3:22 when, at Jesus' baptism ... of the Holy Spirit as kiss; St. Bonaventure's description of the Spirit as flowing water, as transformer ...

On "Preach," Anthony SooHoo, S.J., draws on unexpected images from Celtic Christianity in his homily for Pentecost, Year C.

The “saving water” of baptism brings about a “reconciled heart” and “a new man” and “remission of sins” and “the forgiveness of sins” and “the Holy Spirit” and allows us to ...

Parallel with the baptism by water is the baptism of the Holy Spirit which insures this progressive experience of union, and which constitutes the Christian an active member of the body of Christ ...

"As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water ... God and corrupting baptism, even when some biblical terminology is used during their baptisms. The Holy Spirit does not participate ...