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  • Rain can be restorative and cleansing, so there's a certain overlap, but it generally lacks the specific baptismal associations of submersion.†   (source)
  • This meant baptismal certificates, confirmation papers.†   (source)
  • Rife contributed $500 to the Highlands Church of the Baptism by Fire, Reverend Wayne Bedford, head minister; $2,500 to the Pentecostal Youth League of Bayside, Reverend Wayne Bedford, president; $150,000 to the Pentecostal Church of the New Trinity, Reverend Wayne Bedford, founder and patriarch; $2.†   (source)
  • My mother kept a sepia-colored black-and-white death photo of Lisa in a white lace baptism dress, looking like a doll, looking asleep, so peaceful, as she lay in a—tiny wood coffin.†   (source)
  • Of course, it's written down at the church, back home, but it's not like we could have bothered the priest to look up the baptism records for someone like me…."†   (source)
  • At baptisms and birthday parties.†   (source)
  • I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.†   (source)
  • I propped Raulito up on the baptismal font and gave the other children mints to keep them quiet.†   (source)
  • Another holler went up in front of me, and a large woman flopped over, her arms above her head like a candidate for baptism.†   (source)
  • He got out the old baptism registry, and we just started going through the names.†   (source)
  • Papa stepped in just before my baptism day.†   (source)
  • Here and there was a sudden splash, followed by an angry shout from someone who had received an unexpected baptism.†   (source)
  • They built the town's first Baptist church on land near a creek that was a popular site for baptisms, ground the church still occupies.†   (source)
  • Maybe that was after June was born, after her baptism maybe, that day with the ice cream.†   (source)
  • Women holding babies up to the sign, to the flowing juice, let it bathe them in baptismal balsam and oil.†   (source)
  • They tolerated the baptism and modest garments imposed on there by the French Catholic laws; but in the evenings, they made their cheap fabrics into alluring costumes, made jewelry of animal bones and bits of discarded metal which they polished to look like gold; and the slave cabins of Pointe du Lac were a foreign country, an African coast after dark, in which not even the coldest overseer would want to wander.†   (source)
  • The rest of us were born steeped in sin, the sin of our fathers that Baptism and Confirmation began to wash away.†   (source)
  • He kept at it Sunday after Sunday, until he had enough of them to hold a decent baptismal.†   (source)
  • As Christ's servants we offer a refuge for people in need and a promise of atonement through prayer and the sacrament of baptism.†   (source)
  • It was born three months later in the city legislature, and since its true parentage was hidden, half the community turned out for its baptism two years later.†   (source)
  • Many of the paintings had been transported to -the Konigstein, but some were seriously injured by splinters of bombshells-notably Francia's 'Baptism of Christ.'†   (source)
  • As we rolled in urine and vomit, in that hideous, stinking baptism, we rolled together as a class for the first time, as though controlled by a single, invincible will, and on that night, they could not hurt us, could not touch us, could not even approach us in the ecstasy and amplitude of our solidarity.†   (source)
  • The baptismal area there, they say, is a thousand years old.†   (source)
  • I need to know the correct spelling of his name, and whether he has a middle name or what's called a baptismal name — the details that must be included on the government papers that I'll fill out for him.†   (source)
  • Shortly after my baptism of wolf-juice I submitted my first progress report.†   (source)
  • Blue Elk says this boy's baptismal name is Thomas Black Bull, so he is probably George Black Bull's son.†   (source)
  • "Time for the final baptism," said Yama, and he lashed out with his left hand.†   (source)
  • But Professor Woodrow Wilson, prior to his baptism of political fire, had regarded the Senate as one of the ablest and most powerful legislative bodies in the world.†   (source)
  • He couldn't begin to comprehend, now, how far off the track he was with his baptismal fixation.†   (source)
  • Then he's ready to become a new person, to undergo his baptismal immersion.†   (source)
  • Remind me to tell you about the time he put red dye in the baptismal well.†   (source)
  • For many years the baptismal certificate was our only valid means of identification, and Florentino Ariza's, recorded in the parish church of St. Tiburtius, said only that he was the natural son of an unwed natural daughter called Transito Ariza.†   (source)
  • Angela, new mother, agitated, forgot she was holding the child and let him slip into the baptismal font, a total immersion of the Protestant type.†   (source)
  • He was scouting out baptismal sites.†   (source)
  • There is a little stream that runs by the village, with small pools where people wash clothes and get water for drinking, but it isn't deep or wide enough for anything near the proper baptismal effect.†   (source)
  • He thought about Rocky then; his baptismal name had been Augustine, and "Rocky" had been as close as he had wanted to come to the Indian name old Grandma's sister had given him.†   (source)
  • The oldest baptismal certificate that he found was that of Amaranta Buendia, baptized in adolescence by Father Nicanor Reyna during the time when he was trying to prove the existence of God by means of tricks with chocolate.†   (source)
  • Especially not if it's going to be spilled in the baptismal fount, or over the icing on my birthday cake!†   (source)
  • Somehow, we maintain when they call the baptismal party up to the font, repeat a flurry of meaningless words.†   (source)
  • The article was called "Second Baptisms."†   (source)
  • Six-thirty already and my little cousin's baptism is over.†   (source)
  • The Shrike held him out like a father offering his son for baptism.†   (source)
  • Going home would resolve a problem that has weighed heavily on Lourdes: Diana's delayed baptism.†   (source)
  • She was really excited as she started to prepare the mole the day before the baptism.†   (source)
  • In the years that followed the baptism, not much changed for the Lackses.†   (source)
  • John had attended the baptism just to see if he could speak to her alone.†   (source)
  • Priests, they say, should stick to doing Mass, weddings, and baptisms.†   (source)
  • So in a literary work, does submersion in water always signify baptism?†   (source)
  • Like baptism, drowning has plenty to tell us in a story.†   (source)
  • My baptism was a slightly awkward affair.†   (source)
  • The thing about baptism is, you have to be ready to receive it.†   (source)
  • And I'm attending a Christian school without having received the proper baptism of Christ."†   (source)
  • Chapter 18 — If She Comes Up, It's Baptism.†   (source)
  • Baptism can mean a host of things, of which rebirth is only one.†   (source)
  • When I return, I'll have my certificate of baptism in my bag."†   (source)
  • After baptism Philomena said she had tea and ham and cakes in her house around the corner.†   (source)
  • She spent a weekend in Bristol, poring over the church baptism registers.†   (source)
  • Batiza pronounced with the tongue curled just so means "baptism."†   (source)
  • In Kilanga these are matters of religious observance, they are baptism and communion.†   (source)
  • Father took his hand away and waited, I suppose, for the miracle of baptism to take hold.†   (source)
  • He has tried to explain how baptism—the batiza—would have changed everything.†   (source)
  • But in the end he got around to emphasizing baptism, as always.†   (source)
  • His first sermon in August waxed great and long on the subject of baptism.†   (source)
  • Some kind of baptism, some kind of blessing, he thought.†   (source)
  • Whenever a funeral or baptism occurred, however, all the brothers would be there.†   (source)
  • "There!" she cried, "There is the church of my baptism!"†   (source)
  • He knew he would need a new name, if the baptism turned out to work after all.†   (source)
  • And maybe the baptism would work after all, if he put on White man's clothes.†   (source)
  • "I daresay he was somewhat disappointed at the baptism today," said Thrower.†   (source)
  • Lou Ann wondered how Granny Logan was picturing a baptism in one bottle of water.†   (source)
  • I haven't seen her in months, and want her here for my birthday, not to mention the baptism.†   (source)
  • He shall be covered with the water of baptism as was Jesus himself.†   (source)
  • Baptism alone hadn't wakened him from his dream.†   (source)
  • Nice of you to show up for your own baby's baptism, Kristina Georgia.†   (source)
  • He pounced, a whitecollared tiger, with God's A to Z of baptism.†   (source)
  • A visit now, the same time as Hunter's baptism?†   (source)
  • I don't want to think about Mom and Scott, planning birthday and baptism parties.†   (source)
  • I spent the day with Mom and "the girls," shopping for Hunter's baptism outfit.†   (source)
  • We were never really sure what we'd find on the riverbank when we walked down for a baptism.†   (source)
  • I like to think that baptism was a twofer!†   (source)
  • I remember countless gospel studies with all kinds of people and lots of river baptisms.†   (source)
  • Our dogs always seemed to follow the crowd to the river for baptisms.†   (source)
  • The church recorded the benchmarks of her life-funerals, weddings, baptisms, holidays-and it asked for nothing in return.†   (source)
  • He tried to assure himself that if this video were to leak out, the public would be open-minded and tolerant, realizing that all spiritual rituals included aspects that would seem frightening if taken out of context—crucifixion reenactments, Jewish circumcision rites, Mormon baptisms of the dead, Catholic exorcisms, Islamic niqab, shamanic trance healing, the Jewish Kaparot ceremony, even the eating of the figurative body and blood of Christ.†   (source)
  • … Math and Gwydyon took the flowers of oak and broom and meadowsweet and from these conjured up the loveliest and most beautiful girl anyone had seen; they baptized her with the form of baptism that was used then, and named her Blodeuedd.†   (source)
  • Lying there among the lace is my long-dead sister Lisa in a white baptism dress, her face in tranquil sleep like the way she looks in a picture my mother keeps in an old album.†   (source)
  • But right now, all we knew was the baptism of fire that had reduced Class 226 by more than half was over.†   (source)
  • Abstinence, confession, communion, baptism, mass—take your pick—choose whatever combination pleases you and ignore the rest.†   (source)
  • Now Uncle Nacho is coming in his car, and we have to hurry to get to Precious Blood Church quick because that's where the baptism party is, in the basement rented for today for dancing and tamales and everyone's kids running all over the place.†   (source)
  • Like the Remnants of a Ravaged Army We helped one another back over the sand dunes, picking up those who fell, supporting those who could barely walk… The baptism of fire that had reduced Class 226 by more than half was over… No one had ever dreamed it would be this; bad.†   (source)
  • The sanctuary has played host to the baptisms of the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire, as well as the marriage of Victor Hugo.†   (source)
  • "Anyway, I can tell you right now you're not going to find any of the Crawfords on our baptism registry.†   (source)
  • A clerk there found a certificate from my christening, when I was a baby, and another from my baptism, which, as with all Mormon children, had occurred when I was eight.†   (source)
  • No doubt Fela would sprinkle in her powders and Tono would say an Our Father backwards over the pot, and even I would add some holy water I'd bottled from Jacqueline's baptism to give to her mother.†   (source)
  • A baptism would lift Lourdes's constant concern that Diana's unexpected death will send her daughter to purgatory.†   (source)
  • Tita took care to feed the turkeys properly; she wanted the feast to go well, for the ranch was celebrating an important event: the baptism of her nephew, first son of Pedro and Rosaura.†   (source)
  • They sleep in every nook and cranny of the church: in three large rooms once used for sacraments, baptisms, and youth study groups; in the garage; in the hallways; on the dirt patio outside; in the former sacristy.†   (source)
  • If you want to march into his room and pull the prayer rug from under his feet and discuss the question of Christian baptism with him, please go ahead.†   (source)
  • In her Beloved, Morrison makes even greater use of the symbolic implications of baptism and drowning.†   (source)
  • Symbolically, that's the same pattern we see in baptism: death and rebirth through the medium of water.†   (source)
  • So there are literary drownings like Henry Jr.'s, and near-drowning baptisms like Conrad's, but a character's baptism can also be less harrowing.†   (source)
  • Will they think of those little pagans doomed forever for lack of baptism and knowledge of the True Faith?†   (source)
  • Seen this way, baptism is a sort of reenactment on a very small scale of that drowning and restoration of life.†   (source)
  • Still, it's certainly true that baptism is itself a symbolic act and that there's nothing inherent in the act that makes a person more religious or causes God to take notice.†   (source)
  • There was a delay the day of the baptism when the chosen godfather, John McErlaine, got drunk at the speakeasy and forgot his responsibilities.†   (source)
  • The lemonade and bun are delicious and Alphie the new baby is chirping away enjoying his baptism day too innocent to know his name is an affliction.†   (source)
  • There's a religious or ritual association here—it resembles baptism in some sects, where the believer is immersed thrice, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.†   (source)
  • All she has in that trunk is a lot of papers, certificates of birth and baptism, her Irish passport, Dad's English passport from Belfast, our American passports and her bright red flapper dress with spangles and black frills she brought all the way from America.†   (source)
  • Does it represent baptism?†   (source)
  • She's out of the bed next day getting the baby ready for baptism, telling Bridey she could never forgive herself if the baby died and went to Limbo, a place for unbaptized babies, where it may be nice and warm but, still, dark forever and no hope of escape even on the Judgment Day.†   (source)
  • Literal rebirth—surviving a deadly situation—is certainly a part of it, just as symbolic rebirth is the point of the sacrament of baptism, in which taking the new believer completely underwater causes him to die out of his old self and to be reborn in his identity as a follower of Christ.†   (source)
  • Malachy looked from one to the other, shifted on his feet, pulled his cap down over his eyes, shoved his hands deep in his trouser pockets, said, Och, aye, the way they do in the far reaches of County Antrim, turned, hurried up Court Street to the speakeasy on Atlantic Avenue where he was sure they'd ply him with free drink in honor of his son's baptism.†   (source)
  • So there are literary drownings like Henry Jr.'s, and near-drowning baptisms like Conrad's, but a character's baptism can also be less harrowing.†   (source)
  • The rebirths/baptisms have a lot of common threads, but every drowning is serving its own purpose: character revelation, thematic development of violence or failure or guilt, plot complication or denouement.†   (source)
  • And Flannery O'Connor, along the same lines only more peculiar, has a story called "The River" (1955) in which a little boy, having watched baptisms joining people to God on a Sunday, goes back to the river the next day to join God on his own.†   (source)
  • During the second interview, Nathan even retracted baptism as a specific program, and suggested we might organize some kind of sprinkling.†   (source)
  • To reshape his garden into mounds; to submit to Tata Ndu on the subject of river baptism; to listen at all to Tata Ndu or even the rantings of Mama Tataba.†   (source)
  • Afterwards, instead of the baptism, Father lured people down as near as he could get them to the river by means of the age-old method of a church supper.†   (source)
  • Our Father could not seem to accept what seemed clear enough even to a child: when he showered the idea of baptism—batiza—on people here, it shrunk them away like water on a witch.†   (source)
  • He had envisioned a baptism.†   (source)
  • Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture.†   (source)
  • Others, who understood the Spirit's touch which made them dance, who understood whole families bending their backs in a field while singing as from one throat, who understood the ecstasy of river baptisms under suns just like this one, did not understand this curious disorder, this headless display and so refused also to go.†   (source)
  • He performed weddings and baptisms on the weekends, he had fellowship on Wednesday nights, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays he worked with the choir.†   (source)
  • There was just a handful of clothing, a few old sandals, and boxes of every shape and size tied with bits of ribbon or elastic, in which she kept engraved announcements of First Communions and baptisms, locks of hair, fingernails, discolored photographs, and a few pairs of well-worn baby shoes.†   (source)
  • There were no crowds at this baptism, which took place at three o'clock in the morning when Mrs. Colligan's son, stumbling home drunk and forgetting the wall was there, bloodied his nose and then leaned over and vomited against the new bricks.†   (source)
  • It is the water of your baptism.†   (source)
  • No baptism!†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the Orthodox Christians were delineating the steps to being card-carrying members of the group—confess the creed, accept baptism, worship, obey the priests.†   (source)
  • Gnostics offered a second baptism.†   (source)
  • Lou Ann hadn't yet broken the news that, when the baby was born, the plan was to give it a Catholic baptism.†   (source)
  • Lou Ann made the baptism decision purely for practical reasons: if one of the grandmothers was going to have a conniption, it might as well be the one who was eighteen hundred miles away rather than the one who lived right across town.†   (source)
  • Here Thrower performed a baptism that didn't do a lick of good, and he went strutting around the rest of the day like he had just called a buffalo into a starving village in the dead of winter.†   (source)
  • This year, so close on the heels of the birthday/baptism fiasco, and with Hunter still too young to care, Halloween was a non-event.†   (source)
  • Amaranta searched among old papers for the ledger where Ursula had written down the names and birth and baptism dates of all of them, and beside the space for each one she added his present address.†   (source)
  • He began to have that feeling that he was one of the seventeen Aurelianos, whose birth certificates he tracked down as he went through four volumes, but the baptism dates were too far back for his age.†   (source)
  • I mean, when I went to Stockton, there were no plans for Hunter's baptism, and a visit from my dad was completely implausible, especially at the exact same time Leigh finally decided to schedule one, after many distant months.†   (source)
  • Baptisms usually happen before the sermon, but Pastor Keith wisely forged ahead, assuming [praying] Hunter's wayward mother would appear sooner or later.†   (source)
  • He was one of the first who had been brought to the house for baptism and Ursula and Amaranta remembered him very well because in a few hours he had destroyed every breakable object that passed through his hands.†   (source)
  • In fact, during a baptism one very dark night, I accidentally stepped off the normal path and led us into an alligator or turtle bed, and we both disappeared into the water.†   (source)
  • We conducted another baptism at our house one night when the river was really high, which brings water up close to our house, along with the snakes, alligators, and other dangerous debris.†   (source)
  • In the ordinance of immersion as practised in the good old Baptist Church, it is the rule to require the candidate to relate his experience before his baptism is performed.†   (source)
  • George got no pay at all at the desk the next week because he had gotten that five dollars to pay Blue Elk for the marriage and the baptism.†   (source)
  • He held him under while he said the words of Baptism and then he jerked him up again and looked sternly at the gasping child.†   (source)
  • …was he who, crying these words in a loud voice, was utterly confounded; when he spoke of David, the shepherd boy, raised by God's power to be the King of Israel, it was he who, while they shouted: "Amen!" and: "Hallelujah!" struggled once more in his chains; when he spoke of the day of Pentecost when the Holy Ghost had come down on the apostles who tarried in the upper room, causing them to speak in tongues of fire, he thought of his own baptism and how he had offended the Holy Ghost.†   (source)
  • I had no wish to enter had I the right, and this time the verger might have stopped me, demanding perhaps my baptismal certificate, or a letter of introduction from the Dean.†   (source)
  • The priest wanted a dollar for each baptismal certificate and I would have had to go to City Hall with you.†   (source)
  • Once for five minutes seven years ago they had been lovers - if you could give that name to a relationship in which she had never used his baptismal name: to her it was just an incident, a scratch which heals completely in the healthy flesh: she was even proud of having been the priest's woman.†   (source)
  • Compare the motif of the fire sticks discussed above. reading of the prophecies, the priest puts on a purple cope and, preceded by the processional cross, the candelabra, and the lighted blessed candle, goes to the baptismal font with his ministers and the clergy, while the following tract is sung: "As the hart panteth after the fountains of water, so my soul panteth after Thee, 0 God! when shall I come and appear before the face of God?†   (source)
  • 2 The Baptismal Bowl/ Grandfather in His Two Forms.†   (source)
  • "And here is Andrea Cavalcanti's baptismal register, given by the curate of Saravezza."†   (source)
  • She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal name; the Church no longer existed.†   (source)
  • All are bowed beneath the equality of baptismal names.†   (source)
  • "All we have to do," said Mr. Cunningham, "is to stand up with lighted candles in our hands and renew our baptismal vows."†   (source)
  • "Grampa," little Hans Castorp might say once they were in the den, raising himself up on tiptoe and stretching to reach the old man's ear, "please show me the baptismal bowl."†   (source)
  • She had not thought of that, but a name suggested by a phrase in the book of Genesis came into her head as she proceeded with the baptismal service, and now she pronounced it: "SORROW, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."†   (source)
  • At the sound of those somber syllables, religious feelings got mixed up with a sense of death and history, and all of it together somehow left the boy with a pleasant sensation— indeed, it may well have been that it was solely for the sake of that sound, just to hear it and join in reciting it, that he had once again asked to be allowed to see the baptismal bowl.†   (source)
  • He was back in the "den" and saw Hans Lorenz's narrow head bent down over the pale golden circle of the baptismal bowl, that abiding, mutable heirloom; and he saw him round his lips to form the syllable "great," that pious, somber sound that reminded you of places where as you walked you fell into a reverential, forward rocking motion.†   (source)
  • …back over the complexity of his adventures; in fact, Hans Lorenz Castorp's dignified chin-propping method had almost become a habit for his grandson as well— and he never used it without being reminded of the old man's stiff collar, that interim form of his ceremonial ruff, of the soft golden hollow of the baptismal bowl, the religious sound of "great-great-great," and similar secret, private associations, all leading to yet another round of reflection on the complexity of his life.†   (source)
  • "My dear," exclaimed Dame Aloise solemnly, "your parents did not commit the sin of giving you that name at the baptismal font."†   (source)
  • We'll look first,' said Father Victor, leisurely rolling out poor Kimball O'Hara's 'ne varietur' parchment, his clearance-certificate, and Kim's baptismal certificate.†   (source)
  • We have already mentioned the baptismal name of this ancient chief; but in his conversation with Natty, held in the language of the Delawares, he was heard uniformly to call himself Chingachgook, which, interpreted, means the "Great Snake."†   (source)
  • Perhaps there was something of deep feeling excited in the bosom of this inhabitant of the forest by the sound of a name that recalled the idea of his nation in ruins, for he seldom used it himself—never, indeed, excepting on the most solemn occasions; but the settlers had united, according to the Christian custom, his baptismal with his national name, and to them he was generally known as John Mohegan, or, more familiarly, as Indian John.†   (source)
  • Haidee is a very uncommon name in France, but is common enough in Albania and Epirus; it is as if you said, for example, Chastity, Modesty, Innocence,—it is a kind of baptismal name, as you Parisians call it.†   (source)
  • Your baptismal name, if you please.†   (source)
  • "Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!" deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.†   (source)
  • —It is certain that little Agnes, that was the child's name, a baptismal name, for it was a long time since la Chantefleurie had had any surname—it is certain that that little one was more swathed in ribbons and embroideries than a dauphiness of Dauphiny!†   (source)
  • Ah, you call yourself Oriental, a Levantine, Maltese, Indian, Chinese; your family name is Monte Cristo; Sinbad the Sailor is your baptismal appellation, and yet the first day you set foot in Paris you instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians,—that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.†   (source)
  • When I was a child, they called me young fellow; now they call me old fellow; those are my baptismal names; take that as you like.†   (source)
  • Andrea seized the certificate of his father's marriage and his own baptismal register, and after having opened them with all the eagerness which might be expected under the circumstances, he read them with a facility which proved that he was accustomed to similar documents, and with an expression which plainly denoted an unusual interest in the contents.†   (source)
  • However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names.†   (source)
  • The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for them; and they never called him anything except Monseigneur Bienvenu [Welcome].†   (source)
  • "I used to belong to the L.M.S.," she shrieked, "but I disagreed with them about infant baptism."†   (source)
  • 'You did well out of the baptisms,' the schoolmaster said.†   (source)
  • He said slyly, 'After all, father - there are the baptisms.'†   (source)
  • "To-morrow morning, the baptisms," he announced.†   (source)
  • No, I tell you, Lujon, the marriages first, the baptisms afterward; that order is but Christian.†   (source)
  • Arm-inarm they went in to begin the baptisms.†   (source)
  • He had performed marriages and baptisms and heard confessions and confirmed until noon.†   (source)
  • Few of us have any inkling of the sense of the rite of baptism, which was our initiation into our Church.†   (source)
  • I had no suspicion that I was to live here for but a short time and that the manner of my leaving would be my first baptism of racial emotion.†   (source)
  • For it was like a band of Jesuits landing where a heathen people thirsted for baptism in the dense thousands, thronging out of their brick towns.†   (source)
  • Juana, considering the matter, threw caution to the winds, and she dressed Coyotito in the clothes she had prepared for his baptism, when there would be money for his baptism.†   (source)
  • "5 The popular interpretation of baptism is that it "washes away original sin," with emphasis rather on the cleansing than on the rebirth idea.†   (source)
  • …Killing of the Christmas Wren have continued the tradition, in a mood of frolic, into our contemporary calendar; and through the Christian church (in the mythology of the Fall and Redemption, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, the "second birth" of baptism, the initiatory blow on the cheek at confirmation, the symbolical eating of the Flesh and drinking of the Blood) solemnly, and sometimes effectively, we are united to those immortal images of initiatory might, through the sacramental…†   (source)
  • Melanie had that mixed up with baptism!†   (source)
  • He chanted above it in a melancholy tone: "Now, I'm asking the first mother who really loves her son to bring him to me for baptism!†   (source)
  • My mother pulled my arm and I walked with her to thepreacher and shook his hand, a gesture that made me a candidate for baptism.†   (source)
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