Sentences with phrase «received at baptism»

This involves a post-baptismal catechesis,... presenting again some elements from the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults with the purpose of allowing a person to grasp and live the immense, extraordinary richness and responsibility received at Baptism.

The Christian only appears holy, because the divine power, which he received at baptism, forces his sinful body to do works of righteousness and love.

Every day a Christian invites Christ or the Spirit, which has yet received at baptism, to rule his sinful body.

Both had to acknowledge their sinfulness and to ask for a redeemer, which they received at baptism.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, this current situation described earlier makes us reflect, and, as pastors, we are worried about the fact that many people who contract marriage are formally Christians, since they have received baptism, but are not practicing the Christian faith at all; not just liturgically, but also existentially.

Everybody, believing in Jesus Christ, receives the power to overcome sin at Holy Baptism.

At his baptism, when he was declared to be the Son of God, it was not an ornamental declaration which he received, but a vocation, a mission.

Once you have received the baptism of the Spirit, which all Christians do at the moment they believe in Jesus for eternal life, there is no reversing or undoing it.

It was Mark who began this process of transvaluation, as far as we can make out at this distance, by insisting that Jesus became Messiah at his baptism — though perhaps the evangelic tradition had already received this interpretation in the Roman community, or even, earlier still, in Palestine or in the early Gentile church.

Immediately after receiving the Spirit at baptism, Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the desert.

Just so, at baptism we received grace and promise without our own doing or having anything to boast of.

It was precisely this desire for some infallible external guarantee which Jesus resisted when he was tempted to test his experience of receiving a divine call at the time of his baptism.

At the outset of our relationship with Christ through the Church, we receive baptism.

Whether for the first time he was then convinced that he was the Messiah, whether he had already come to this conviction or had been coming to it and now felt that he had received the seal of God's approval, or whether he did not believe that he was the Messiah at all but considered himself only a prophet and forerunner of the coming one, his baptism was the turning point between his previous life of preparation and waiting and the active ministry in which he would henceforth be engaged.

For Aphrahat, as for Ephrem, it was at his baptism that Jesus received the priesthood from John.

The crop at that time was composed almost entirely of the lowest untouchable caste, the sweepers, who came unsolicited by the tens of thousands to receive baptism and the benefits of getting out of the Hindu caste system.

Later, at his baptism, he would receive signs of special kinship with the Father, but here, at a mere 12 years, we can imagine his heart leaping when he saw the temple.

At baptism we receive a new holy nature, which is stronger than our sinful nature and will overcome it in the course of time.

All of them, both the women and the men, receive empowerment through the same gift of God's Spirit that had descended upon Jesus at his baptism.

At baptism we also received the Holy Spirit.

At their baptism Christians receive a royal - sacerdotal anointing and become members of Christ's sacerdotal Body.

Those not belonging to the Christian fold who receive the grace of God and are saved obtain their salvation through an implicit faith in, love of and desire for Christ, his church and the sacraments — at least baptism (and the Eucharist).

It is not an accident that at baptism you receive a name by which you are known, and you receive that name by being baptized in another name, the name of God, now called by Christians not Yahweh but Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Most of us are living as the disciples at Ephesus who missed receiving the Holy Spirit because they were baptized into John's baptism and had never even heard that there was a Holy Spirit (Acts 19aff.).

The «Pentecostal experience» is at the same time an unconditional acceptance by the forgiving God (justification), the beginning of a new and transformed life (sanctification), the receiving of the strength to sustain new life in an adverse social and cultural medium, and the sharing of testimony with others (baptism of the Holy Spirit).

The MINI WRC, powered by a 1.6 - litre, four - cylinder Di turbo - charged engine, recently received a baptism of fire, acquitting itself well during initial testing at Prodrive's rally track.