Sentences with phrase «cleansing water of baptism»

There is barely a Catholic Church today where one does not encounter the image of Christ with its white and red rays issuing from his heart: - the white cleansing water of baptism and confession and the red nourishing blood of the Eucharist.

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Likewise, when Namaan the Syrian emerges from the Jordan cleansed of his leprosy, we are supposed to understand that the river's healing waters really signify grace in general and the sacrament of baptism in particular.

At first the ritual was doubtless figurative, a ceremonial cleansing in water, which was regarded as symbolizing, rather than effecting, the purification of the inner life, and the origin of which lay in the baptism of John and kindred customs rather than in the sacraments of the mystery religions.

John used water as the sign of cleansing (baptism) and as the sign of new life (a well of water within a person producing everlasting life).

I believe that water baptism is just a symbol of the baptism of the Spirit from the Holy Spirit, that purifies and washes us clean.

In nearly all cases they hold it under the waters of baptism too long to cleanse it of the least bit of devilishness, and it emerges brain dead.