Embody the Prayer

Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 10 a.m.

b'If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.\\n~ Loren Eiseley\\n\\nYou will always find an answer in the sound of water. \\n~ Zhuangzi\\n\\nSuch is the grace and power of baptism, not an overwhelming of the world as of old, but a purification of the sins of each individual, and a complete cleansing from all the bruises and stains of sin. And since we are double-made, I mean of body and soul, and the one part is visible, the other invisible, so the cleansing also\\n is twofold, by water and the Spirit, the one received visibly in the body, the other concurring with it invisibly and apart from the body, the one typical, the other real and cleansing the depths. \\n~ Gregory of Nazianzus'