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Abstract

The Holy Baptism is a sacrament through which Jesus Christ introduces man into His Kingdom and into the communion of the Holy Trinity. It is the basis of the process of transforming the present life into the eternal one and the secular history into the holy one. It has both an individual dimension and social and ecclesial. In both cases it extends over the world as a divine rainbow, since the creation of the world and the origins of mankind to the "present day" of history and to the eschatological pleroma. It has, as it were, three phases: the baptism of creation, the baptism of redemption in Christ and the baptism of eschatological transformation into eternity. It is the basis of the other sacraments of the Holy Church and also of the development of different domains: social life, national life, culture, tradition, perfect community and the whole spirit of mankind. Baptism is ever alive and, as it were, still being carred out in individuals and the whole nations. That is why the nation which has been baptized should, and particularly so in the time of great anniversaries, go back to its baptism with the whole might, whole memory and obedience of faith and whole love.