15 1220 If water springing up from the earth symbolizes life, the water of the sea is a symbol of death and so can represent the mystery of the cross. By this symbolism Baptism signifies communion ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

I can’t baptize myself; I need another to do it for me. And like the death of Christ on the cross, baptism is once for all, not to be repeated. In this sense, “rebaptism” is an oxymoron ...

In the deluge, we find many types of things to come. 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 ...

In his Angelus address, Pope Francis said that each Sign of the Cross is a reminder of one’s baptism that “traces in us the memory of the grace of God, who loves us and desires to be with us.” ...

AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan has launched a $100 million master plan aimed at attracting 1 million Christian pilgrims to celebrations of the second millennium of the baptism of Jesus in 2030.