Pastor gears up for potentially historic mass baptism: ‘God can do anything’
A California pastor is on a mission to hold the biggest mass baptism in world history. Mark Francey of Oceans Church in San ...
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The testimony of water
Baptism manifests that promise, made as real as the people who’ve surrounded us with God’s love. As real as the water in that swimming pool where Papi dunked me into Christ’s resurrected life. The ...
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Baptism foreshadowed in Old Testament
The first letter of Peter mentions the event of the flood, “…in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism ...
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The Sacrament of Baptism - Catechism of the Catholic Church
1214 This sacrament is called Baptism , after the central rite by which it is carried out: to baptize (Greek baptizein ) means to "plunge" or "immerse"; the "plunge" into the water symbolizes the ...