Sentences with phrase «confession at baptism»

Indeed, it was the confession at baptism in the ancient church, the affirmation at the very initiation into the Church.

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Searching for Sunday has provided ample opportunity for creative collaboration because the sacraments at the heart of the book — baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, anointing the sick, and marriage — are rich and complex and endlessly inspiring.

Here, as at the baptism, and at Peter's confession, something is seen, and something is withheld, about the meaning of Christ.

Jesus knew who he was at baptism; his meaning was hriefly glimpsed when Peter made his confession; now, the meaning is even more openly declared.

Since the book draws from the imagery of the seven sacraments — baptism, confession, communion, holy orders, marriage, healing, and confirmation — stories that center around those experiences are much more likely to strike a chord with where I'm at creatively with this project.

The general confession he had to make before his conditional baptism turned out to be a humiliating ordeal («It was like a life photographed as it came to mind, without any order, full of gaps, giving at best a general impression,» he recalls in Journey Without Maps).