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How to use the word baptism in a Sentence?

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Children can explore what their call to faith is through religious education, after baptism, parents are the child’s first teacher, but CCD or enrollment in Catholic school continues that in such a meaningful way.

Mickie Abatemarco

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's his baptism of fire and it's also his 21st birthday, he literally comes of age and in all these dozens of senses he comes of age as well.

Hal Klepak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In recent decades, greater appreciation of our being sisters and brothers in Christ because of our baptism has grown. This has changed the psychological and social climate of our living and praying. We are not enemies but family: a fractured family, but still family.

Francis Cardinal George, OMI

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8 years ago

Love is tears of joy, It’s the baptism of fingers. (L'amour, c'est larme de joie, C'est le baptême des doigts)

Charles de LEUSSE

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10 years ago

As Rollo's death drew near, he went mad and had a hundred Christian prisoners beheaded in front of him in honour of the gods whom he had worshipped, and in the end distributed a hundred pounds of gold around the churches in honour of the true God in whose name he had accepted baptism.

Adémar de Chabannes

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10 years ago

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Arthur Rimbaud

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10 years ago

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

E. M. Forster

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10 years ago

When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much.

Richard Olton

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14 years ago

We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy Spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise. In it your Son Jesus received the baptism of John and we are buried with Christ in his death. By it we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy Spirit.

Book of Common Prayer

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14 years ago

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