Sentences with phrase «body at baptism»

In a person's union with Christ, dramatically enacted in the body at baptism, they enter into the death of Christ and into the resurrection of Christ and it brings them into a «new life.»

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At their baptism Christians receive a royal - sacerdotal anointing and become members of Christ's sacerdotal Body.

Every day a Christian invites Christ or the Spirit, which has yet received at baptism, to rule his sinful body.

The Christian only appears holy, because the divine power, which he received at baptism, forces his sinful body to do works of righteousness and love.

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»

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.