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For information about how to baptize your child, please visit this page: Baptism for Children
Para información de bautismo para niños, favor visite esta página: Bautizo para Niños
To inquire about baptism for adults, please click on this link: /how-do-i-become-catholic
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The First Sacrament of Initiation as a Christian
Baptism is the FIRST of the 3 Sacraments of Initiation into the Catholic Christian faith... the other two are Confirmation and Eucharist. All three create the foundation of every Christian life. We believe that the faithful are born anew by Baptism. Through Baptism, we become brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ - members of the Body of Christ.
In other words, through Baptism we become Christians!
Since the time of early Christianity, Baptism has been the rite of initiation into the Christian community of the Church. In Baptism, the “one Spirit” makes us members of the Body of Christ and of “one another” (Catechism of the Catholic Church [CCC], no. 1267). Pope John Paul II describes the result of Baptism as a “mystical unity” between Christ and his disciples, and the disciples with one another, like “branches of a single vine.” This reflects the mystical communion of the Holy Trinity (Christifideles Laici [The Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World], no. 12)