Baptism requires rejecting Satan and professing one’s full faith in God, Pope Francis said. Only by being able to say “no” to the devil, his works and empty promises “am I able to say ‘yes’ to God, who calls me to conform myself to him in thoughts and deeds,” he said.
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Those who receive the sacrament are given the strength to overcome “the temptation to separate from God, from his will, from communion with him and fall into the snares of worldly seductions,” the pope said during his weekly general audience.
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Naming a child is an important task for parents, because it gives children a sense of identity and belonging to their family and to God, Pope Francis said.
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Parents who prefer not to baptise their children in the hopes that they will “understand and ask for baptism” as adults lack faith that the Holy Spirit will act in their child’s life, Pope Francis said.
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Mahobe mission in Umzimkulu diocese in KwaZulu-Natal celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first baptism in the area, at what
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From as early as the first century, Christians acknowledged that Jesus Christ the man was both divine and human, as is plainly expressed in the Apostles’ Creed.
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A friend who watched a televised Mass on German television noticed that the sacrament of baptism was celebrated by total
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When was the formula in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit first used in the rite of
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Jesus said: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (Jn 3:5).
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