Catholics will celebrate the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. Christian baptism is rooted in a rich symbolism of water in the ...

Invocation “Wade in the Water” Blind Boys of Alabama §  §. §  §. § For those who track the annual lectionary journey, ...

Jesus was a perfect and sinless man born of the Holy Spirit, so why did he ask John to baptize him? It turns out that this ...

John the Baptist in the Jordan ... and sanctifies. 31 1228 Hence Baptism is a bath of water in which the "imperishable seed" of the Word of God produces its life-giving effect.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is the pope’s special envoy for the Mass of consecration of the Church of the Baptism of Christ, January 10. The site is traditionally believed to ...

In the Baptist Church only believers are baptised ... After answering the questions, the person goes into the water to be baptised. Before baptism the pastor will say, “On profession of your ...

This points to baptism symbolising an old way of life dying and a new way of life being raised as someone goes down into the water and then back up from it. The dying of an old way of life is only ...

Instead of excluding the Baptist from participating in the Spirit’s descent through baptism, John’s Gospel makes him the prophet of the Spirit’s descent, a witness to the Spirit’s descent, and — most ...

The Baptist church traces its origins to the sixteenth century when a Church of England minister, John Smyth, performed a radical and scandalous act of baptising himself and the congregation. It ...

Now when all the people were baptised by John the Baptist and when Jesus also had been baptised and was praying, the heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a ...

to make oneself pure ... to be right with God. John the Baptist, of course, is known for having practiced baptism. But then, so did lots of other people. We hear of other groups around this time ...