You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for January 9th, 2020. This week on the Catholic

Sprout's podcast, we are beginning our journey through the seven sacraments by looking at the

sacrament of baptism. We've already talked about how sacraments are a mystery,

and they bring the invisible realities of God and what God is doing to transform us into a way

that we can interact with with our senses, although they still remain a great mystery. We have talked

about how baptism is a door. the first door that we walk through as we enter

the church and become part of God's body.

Now today we are going to talk about three symbols used during a baptism and what they

mean.

Because remember, sacraments are Jesus' gift to us. They allow us, although we are

called to sometimes follow blindly to believe in God, even though we can't necessarily see or

interact with Him. The sacraments give us little symbols so that we can better understand God

what he is calling us to leave behind and to become and how he is transforming us in invisible

ways through the sacraments. So if you have been to a baptism, then you know that there are

certain things that are used and done.

And we are going to talk about what each of those things represents or symbolizes and helps us better understand the invisible things that are happening at a baptism.

Now, the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a baptism is probably water.

And that's usually how we symbolize baptism.

Now here is what we believe.

Each person, of course, our original parents way back were Adam and Eve.

And Adam and Eve disobeyed God and sinned.

And that is the original sin. We inherited this

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