THERE are about 5000 baptisms in Brisbane each year and it represents one of the best opportunities for the Church to welcome ...

The baptism of the Holy Spirit represents a foundational work of God where believers are united with Christ and fellow ...

Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of ...

He has the use of reason; 2. Knows how to give baptism, and 3. Intends to do what the Church intends in the giving of the Sacrament. Baptism is so necessary that God affords every opportunity for ...

Yet baptism is central to the Christian life: commanded by Jesus, taught by the apostles, and honored, practiced, and contemplated from church fathers like Augustine of Hippo and Cyril of ...

Baptism is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and the first of the sacraments of Christian initiation, followed by Confirmation and the Eucharist. According to the Holy Scriptures ...

For starters, the number of children of record (or infants added to the faith’s rolls) remained below 100,000, continuing a ...

The most important argument for believer’s baptism comes from the writings of the Apostle Paul in Romans 6: Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised ...

Baptism shows that it belongs to the Church. Both circumcision and infant baptism look forward to a time when the child will choose to believe for themselves. Therefore, infant baptism is seen to ...

Susan Grey views the artist Mark Cazalet’s depictions of Christ’s baptism and a Samaritan woman This January, commemorating ...