23 From then on, it is possible "to be born of water and the Spirit" 24 in order to enter the Kingdom of God. See where you are baptized, see where Baptism comes from, if not from the cross of ...

If you do not have either, pour water on the head three times into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In all this specificity there may be wisdom for us today. Baptism may take a number of ...

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

We have water and wood, baptism and the cross; Noah the just, Christ; the dove, the Holy Spirit; the ark, the Church; eight, the day of the Lord’s resurrection; the ark coming to rest ...

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 ...

Vatican City (AsiaNews) - The water on which God's blessing is invoked "is transformed, has within it the power of the Holy Spirit" and for this, in Baptism, purifies from sins. The water in the ...

It also closely identifies baptism and justification ... unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which ...