Marcelino A. Rapayla Jr., 2nd year: Sacrament of Initiations Fr.

Mhar Balili

Reflection of the Sacrament of Baptism

The first sacrament of initiations is Baptism. What is the relevance of these sacraments in
our life's journey? The sacraments are there to accompany us as we journey in this life with to
live in the life of sanctity. Baptism is the start of our Christian life and the Anointing of the Sick
is the end.

God has established His ancient covenant by signs and wonders (for example, the
rainbow), but He has also used many other signs to establish His love for us, and for us to
reciprocate our love for Him. All of us are keenly aware of man's ordinary way of
communicating, namely, the spoken word or the written word. However, when some people, like
many deaf individuals, cannot speak or write, they can still express their ideas very effectively
through their own sign language, and they are really good at it.

God decided to give the man another chance by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, into the
world as our personal Savior. The word "redeem" means "to buy back" and at the age of thirty¬
three, Jesus Christ bought mankind back from the captivity of the devil by dying on the cross.,
He made it possible for man to strive for salvation. In His infinite wisdom, Christ came up with
the idea of taking all that love and wrapping it up in seven packages that we call the seven
Sacraments. The first gift of grace is baptism, which would make it possible for a man to share
life with God once again, was made available.

The true meaning of the sacrament is not just about being a Christian, going inside and
outside the church, but all about your true communication with God. According to Ephesians
1:6, how He made us so valuable to Him not by being a thing but by His Beloved Son.