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    The Mystery of Fatt Union nt extn hn commana ne tin, To church bring us ogee, ana in co TMouher wo ducer what t means t0 lve God. The Ratu tary ns Haare rove swith the experience enable sto under nnd whe itis that Jer lied “Father: For Reflection + What des the word church” mean fo you? How ie the church about inclusion, rather than exclusion + What person was the most signifieant in bringing thee New to yout Toho ate you bought the Good News? + We love God by loving our neighbor. Have you ever {alt tempted to love God and bypass loving your neighbor? When? CHAPTER Six Baptism Tr his tetier to the church in Rome, Saint Paul uses lane guage that at first glance seems exaggerated. He writes, "Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ‘Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into ath, so that, ust as Christ was raised from the dead by. the glory ofthe Father, we too might walk in newness of life" (Romans 63-4). Doesn't it seem odd that when Saint Paul wants to write about Baptism, he describes i 8 an experience of dying and being raised from the dead? We have heard this kind of language so often and ‘the passage from the letter to the Romans isso familiar {o-us that perhaps the imagery no longer strikes us as strange. But consider: when the Christian community eserves the process, the event, the celebration by The Mystery of Faith CC the Ikgungy of desth ad evrection, Imac that ee ee ee ti gudparete sade for an amar of i and ee ee Christian comnnity i think of in rol that say Aer all fr ait he tthe hundred eae of Chron Ns, entering the community was erally LL a rCSC bso, when ou sala others and sisters in the ath wore pin, they fd death anal xe arte, . In addition to the possibility of execution, those early beloters fed anoter ind of death inning the Ghrntioncommonity bene they were radial chang ing there way of He pio baton. When they entre the emai oe ith the estos, he 2 Sha ad revi ahapd even We sl pera ee pations which te Christen community reared ab 2 ee ee ee a 2 Cantal pguinn wan owl sta Ht vi re ee pe ee CC who ted tanta tec common sald nt be iii | Painters or sculptors, presumably because tho commis: ‘sions that such artists would reeeive would likely involve

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