Introduction: Baptism
Spring 2025
Baptism
Announcing a Series on the Seven Sacraments
Nicholas J. Healy Jr.“Through the sacraments, divine love reaches into the heart of matter, allowing created things to participate in God's own life and love.”
Baptism is First: Infant Baptism and the Sacramental Inversion
Jonathan Martin Ciraulo“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.”
Creation as a “Monstrance of God’s Real Presence”: A Metaphysical Reflection
Michael Dominic Taylor“The fulfillment of the entire cosmic order is found in the movement from the ‘not yet’ of creation’s groaning to the ‘now’ of the Eucharistic God’s sacrificial presence.”