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You changed my mourning into dancing; you took off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness. (Psalm 30:12) Jesus told Nicodemus: “No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit” (John 3:5).
St. Paul told the Corinthians: “Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come (2 Corinthians 5:17). And Peter told his readers: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3). What were these men of God talking about? Baptism, of course!
In baptism we are truly born “from above” and made into a new creation. At the moment of our baptism, we are given everything we need to live a holy and perfect life. But this new life in Christ comes to us as just a seed—brimming with potential, but needing to be planted in the soil of faith and…
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