Peace be to you.

In order to live a natural life, we have to be born to it.

In order to live a supernatural or divine life, we must be born to it, and that is the sacrament

of baptism, which is the subject of this lesson.

Baptism is the sac of this lesson.

Baptism is the sacrament that incorporates us into the mystical body of Christ, the church,

and is therefore called the door of the church.

There is just a faint parallel to be drawn between the church and the nation in this sense. Most of us did not

wait until we were 21, then studied the Constitution and the history of the United States,

and decide to become American citizens. We were born out of the womb of America.

The country was first.

We were born into it as citizens.

But in the strict sense, the church itself is first, Christ's

mystical body. Baptism incorporates us into it. We are born out of the womb of the church.

As we explained before, we do not become members of the church in somewhat the same way as a brick

is added to brick in a house.

We become incorporated to the church very much as cells expand from central cells.

But you may ask, what difference does the pouring of a little water make?

Well as regards the water itself, it probably makes very little difference.

That is to say the water alone, take the water in a steam engine.

You might ask, well, what difference does a little water make?

When you combine it with the mind and the spirit of an engineer, it can drive a steam

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