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Through the water of Baptism, thanks to the action of the Holy Spirit, we are given access to the intimacy of Trinitarian love.
In the Lenten journey, memorial of our Baptism, we are exhorted to come out of ourselves in order to open ourselves, in trustful abandonment, to the merciful embrace of the Father.
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Message for Lent
2007
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St Augustine said: "You have believed, you have been baptized: the old life is dead, it was killed on the Cross, buried in Baptism. The old life is buried in which you lived ill at ease: may the new life arise". Only if, like Christ, they are not of the world, can Christians be hope in the world and for the world.
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THE FOURTH NATIONAL ECCLESIAL CONVENTION
Verona, 19 Oct. 2006
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Baptism is more than a cleansing. It is death and resurrection. Paul himself, speaking in the Letter to the Galatians of the change in his life through the encounter with the Risen Christ, describes it thus: I have died. He really begins, at this moment, a new life. To be a Christian is more than an aesthetic operation, which would add something nice to an existence that is more or less complete. It is a new beginning, it is a rebirth: death and resurrection.
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General Audience, Vatican City
December 12, 2008
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