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PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
- SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
  - CHAPTER ONE THE SACRAMENTS OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION
    - Article 1 THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

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Article 1

THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua),⁴ and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word."⁵

4 Cf. Council of Florence: DS 1314: vitae spiritualis ianua.

5 Roman Catechism II, 2, 5; Cf. Council of Florence: DS 1314; CIC, cann. 204 # 1; 849; CCEO, can. 675 # 1.

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