Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public life after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.

When 68 men and women from an indigenous community in Northern Kenya surrendered their lives to Jesus as part of an outreach ...

On a similar issue, some object to infant baptism, claiming it to be invalid since an infant is too young to willfully accept Jesus. To address these issues on baptism, we need to begin with the ...

[In] a classic example, Luke tells us about the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. Now, if we read elsewhere in the Gospel of Luke [in]... the Acts of the Apostles, we see that Luke knows about ...

Matthew records that when Jesus asked John to baptise him, John was reluctant to do so. This could be for the following reasons: baptism is for the forgiveness of sin, yet Jesus is God’s son and ...

Jordan is planning a major development at the historic Baptism site of Al Maghtas, aiming to transform the area into a ...

In terms of the Jesus tradition, then, to have Jesus either submit to baptism, or himself baptize others, suggests that we are part of a culture that was looking toward Temple purity as its ideal ...

For a Christian the most important thing that happens is that they meet the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a personal encounter which is a life-changing thing. And baptism is a public declaration.

Jesus’s experience struggling in the wilderness after his baptism is at the root of Lent. Chapters 3 and 4 of the Gospel of Luke provide information that can help anyone interested in taking a ...

Marking the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Fr Rif’at Bader, a Jordanian priest of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, remembers that pilgrimage and its ...