Sentences with phrase «acts at every baptism»

God acts at every baptism.

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Saying «in the name of» at baptism is emphasizing the authority for the act.

I have marveled at the studied efforts of my fellow pastors who do everything possible to avoid the act of baptism.

But the baptism is no magical performance, for it promises escape only to the seriously repentant; at the same time it is no merely symbolical act in the modern sense; it is rather a «sign» in the antique meaning of the word, which guarantees the mysterious union of the symbolical act, now occurring, with the future event which the symbolical act prophesies.

The Spirit also acts at our own baptism: he illuminates us so that we see God's will with clarity; he gives us the strength and power to do it; he purifies and cleanses us of sin; and breathes order and beauty into lives inwardly devastated and broken, making us whole again.

And as we engage in these physical acts, God is moving spiritually as well: the words of Scripture call us to faith, baptism grants us the Holy Spirit, and communion offers the very real body and blood of Christ which bring the forgiveness they purchased for us at the cross.

Significantly, the bishop retained his unique baptismal role in the regenerative act of baptism somewhat longer than his eucharistic pre-eminence; and even after finally giving up the baptizing of all catechumens outside his own parish, he preserved, at least in the West, the confirmation thereof as a distinct and essential ceremony, while in the East it was he alone who could bless the oils used by priests in baptism and confirmation.

This section has often been regarded as an exhortation to those who are about to be baptized, and it has been suggested that the act of baptism took place at the end of it.

As Dr. John Baillie writes, «Too often the temptation of Christians has been, in the poignant words of a recent writer, to leave it all «to one great priestly act, one baptism, one cup of woe, though at the heart of all our worship are the words, Drink ye all of it.»»