Sentences with phrase «newly baptized»

At celebrations of baptism, it is becoming common to present the newly baptized with a candle.

The newly baptized then becomes a part of the community of believers who walk in the light of Christ and seek paths of peace in a violent world.

Yes, but, since baptism is now celebrated at Sunday Eucharist, all the members of the parish family are encouraged to pledge their support and care for the faith life of the newly baptized.

The Service of Holy Baptism, in the Book of Common Prayer, states this admirably when it requires that the sponsors in Baptism promise, on behalf of the child, that the newly baptized Christian shall «learn the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments,» and describes these, among other things, as being that which «a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health.»

I've heard of people putting a small amount of salt on the tongue of the newly baptized believer (actually during the baptism) to represent being salt and light in the community.

Some pastors now introduce a newly baptized infant as a new member of the family of God, a brother or sister in Christ.

Markus Barth suggests that the book may be addressed to newly baptized Gentiles.»

In the past I remember listening intently as Genesis 1, the account of the Passover, or the exhortations of Deuteronomy were read to the newly baptized.

The Catechism does say (1254) that an infant's godparents — and surely by implication his or her parents too — «must be firm believers, able and ready to help the newly baptized... on the road of Christian life.»

As the newly baptized members came out of the water he handed them their baptismal certificates.

In most cases, the newly baptized Soviet people had no interest in metanoia, no desire to change.

But the newly baptized ex-Soviets of the last two decades have a rigid and impoverished understanding of «tradition,» which they understand as a set of rules and regulations: when to pray and what set of prayers to read, what not to eat and what else not to do during Lent, what to wear to church, and so on.

Not exact matches

But King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, anxious to establish their hold over a newly united Spain by means of the Catholic Church and the Inquisition, gave the Jews a stark choice: they must be baptized or flee.

Reputedly the site of a well that St. Patrick himself used to baptize newly converted Christians, the well has since been filled in by the British and the exact location is unknown (as was told -LSB-...]