Sentences with phrase «initiated by baptism»

Where once we were initiated by baptism in water, we now acknowledge our baptism by fire.

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It includes both formation through evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant with God — and education, or those processes of actualization that help us to live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our lives; by deepening our relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.

In describing such worship as «public,» we do not mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.