Sentences with phrase «clean by baptism»

It is true, as St. Paul says that Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself to make her holy, making her clean by baptism, but he is waiting to take those souls to himself so that they will be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle, but holy and without blemish (Eph.

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The Christian journey begins at baptism with the cleansing of the soul from sin, and is then strengthened and illuminated by Confirmation — and then the Christian way continues, nourished by the Eucharist and by the mercy of God given through the sacrament of reconciliation, through to the final encounter in death, assisted by the anointing of the sick.

But he maintained that through baptism supported by the prayers of the Church the infant is cleansed and renewed and that in the Lord's Supper the bread and the wine contain the real flesh and the real blood of Christ.