40 1239 The essential rite of the sacrament follows: Baptism properly speaking. It signifies and actually brings about death to sin and entry into the life of the Most Holy Trinity through ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church ... the revealed truth of the Holy Trinity has been at the very root of the Church's living faith, principally by means of Baptism. It finds its ...

Baptism is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and the first of the sacraments of Christian initiation, followed by Confirmation and the Eucharist. According to the Holy Scriptures ...