...In baptism we "who are conceived and born in sin " are made (in the words of the Church Catechism) members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. By nature we are none of these things. The new-born child is not even a child of God. But in baptism...

...new-born Christians,' for the baptised are reborn into a new and supernatural sphere ; they are now members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. And the rest of the Sacraments amplify and extend this initial relationship, this new life in Christ....

...its doctrine of the identity of men with God. By its sacrament of baptism, it professes to make men "members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." It assumes to regenerate them into that original divine nature which the first man forfeited. Between...

...its doctrine of the identity of men with God. By its sacrament of baptism, it professes to make men "members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." It assumes to regenerate them into that original divine nature which the first man forfeited. Between...

...identity of men with God. Tiy its " sacrament of baptism, it professes to make men "mem- '•• bers of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." It assumes to regenerate them into that original divine nature which the first man forfeited. Between...

...officially declared, in other words, that they are by virtue of their valid Baptism (if nothing more) "members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven," that is inheritors of Salvation. Two conclusions, then, follow inevitably from these facts : (1) That...

...to their Lord, were not at that time so intimately joined to His very life as we are in the Church, members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. Can it be that we are in any peril of playing the traitor's part ? One can see a likeness to Judas...

...family of God, grafted into the new creation, through the sacrament of Baptism. By Baptism we are made " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." Baptism, simple as it is, carries with it tremendous obligations. The Church thus addresses the sponsors...

...their teaching on the fact that in Baptism the boys of our Mission whom they address have been made ' Members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven.' I will say nothing in support of this request, for its reasonableness seems to me obvious. The fact...

...Him, we are in danger of forgetting. We all of us need to be reminded not once but often that we are members of Christ, children of God and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven, and that it was not only so in the past, but that it is our duty to-day as Christian men to renounce...