Eucharist Parent Material

BAPT I SM I S NOT A FORMAL I TY Baptism is the Sacrament “on which our faith is based, and which grafts us to Christ and His Church, as living members. Together with the Eucharist and Confirmation it forms the so–called ‘Christian initiation’, which constitutes a single, great sacramental event that aligns us with the Lord and makes us into a living sign of His presence and His love”. However, the Bishop of Rome observed, we might ask, “Is Baptism truly necessary for us to live as Christians and to follow Jesus? Is it not fundamentally a simple rite, a formal act of the Church, for naming a child?” To answer this, he repeated the words of the apostle Paul: “Don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life’”. A MESSAGE FROM POPE FRANCI S TO YOU “ I s B a p t i s m t r u l y n e c e s s a r y f o r u s t o l i v e a s C h r i s t i a n s a n d t o f o l l o w J e s u s ? ” – P o p e F r a n c i s 24