Day 166: Introduction to Baptism
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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Baptism in the Economy of Salvation
Baptism is God's most beautiful and magnificent gift. The plunge into the water symbolizes the catechumens burial into Christ's death, from which he rises up by resurrection with him as a new creature. Baptism in the economy of salvation, prefigurations of baptism in the Old Covenant. In the liturgy of the Easter Vigil during the blessing of the baptismal water, the church solemnly commemorates the great events that already prefigured the mystery of baptism.
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