This new life in Christ begins in the sacrament ... As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of baptism in the Old Testament were given to authorize and explain baptism.

Baptism is a ceremony that symbolises a commitment to living a life as a Christian. Jesus was baptised in the New Testament by John the Baptist. Holy water is put on baptised people by a church ...

Baptism has been a symbolic way of joining ... including infants began. In the New Testament book of Colossians Paul writes: In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed ...