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Baptism is First: Infant Baptism and the Sacramental Inversion

“Instead of conceiving the institution of baptism as a most fitting crowning of the inherent symbolism of water, it could be said that baptism is the very reason for which water was created from the beginning.”

It’s the same healthy water that flows in the stalks of wheat for the Bread.


It’s the same healthy water that flows in the vines for the Wine. . . .


It’s the same collected water, it’s the same water, healthy, purified, that flows around the world.


That returns, that reappears, having flowed around my whole creation.


It’s the same collected water that bursts forth, that springs forth.


From the new fountain, from the young wellspring.


From the spring and resurgence of hope…

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