Chrzest podstawą nowej ewangelizacji jako odpowiedzialności za Kościół

Abstract

The sacrament of Baptism is the foundation of Christian life, the source and consolidation of the new life of God’s children, and at the same time it becomes the source of responsibility for the Church. Evangelisation is on the one hand a happy annunciation of the vastness of God’s grace and the gift of a new life that is contained in the sacrament of Baptism, and on the other it becomes enlivened and credible when it leads to a full life with the gifts of Baptism and to fulfilling the baptismal oaths. The richness of sacramental gifts makes the whole of a Christian’s life require discovering and realising the baptismal gifts. As it is a personal unification with Christ that results in becoming a God’s child and being bom anew, Baptism obliges the christened one to strive after sainthood in the power of the Holy Spirit, through putting into effect the royal priesthood. At the same time including the christened one into the ecclesiastical Christ’s Body, it obliges him to look for unity in the Church and building the Church through the testimony of his life. Certainly for being completely included in the Church and its mission the remaining initiation sacraments are necessary: Confirmation and Eucharist.