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Baptism is the first Christian sacrament and is the time when relatives and friends offer baptism medals, medals of cribs, gold chains, rosaries, crosses, candles of baptism or christening robes. All these gifts are a way of greeting a new birth. We invite you to discover every detail of this ceremony of baptism, and to choose your baptism gift from our large selection on Lourdes Direct. The ritual of catholic baptism |
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| Christian life has plenty of divine sacraments of which the first is Baptism. Then come Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Orders and Marriage. Originally baptism involved total immersion in water (Baptism in fact comes from "immersion" in Greek). Thus, John the Baptist baptising Jesus remains the model of Christian baptism. |
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As the first of the seven sacraments in Christian life, baptism is a tradition that goes back to the very origins
of the church. This sanctifying ritual means that God is the one that loves first. In the first Christian communities,
adults were mostly baptised, sometimes alone, sometimes with all their family.
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