baptisms
Sacred water rites
Baptisms is the plural of baptism, the Christian rite of admission involving water—typically sprinkling, pouring, or immersion.
The ceremony symbolizes spiritual cleansing and rebirth.
Extended to secular contexts, a baptism is any initiating experience: a baptism of fire describes a harsh first encounter with something difficult.
The church performs infant baptisms every Sunday.
Ceremony naming a child
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- fontCharacter style set
- godparentsBaptismal sponsors for children
- holy waterSacramental liquid for blessings
immersion · sprinkling · blessing · infant · congregation · minister · priest · vows
Preliminary section or presentation
- beginningInitial stage of something
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- debutFirst public appearance
- trialJudicial examination of claims
first experience · induction · rite of passage · welcome · entrance · threshold · newcomer · orientation
Combustion with flames
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
- testEvaluative examination
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
awakening · transformation · purification · renewal · rebirth · cleansing · symbolic · metaphorical
Defamatory remark
- confirmationEstablishing something as true
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- MormonLatter-day Saint adherent
- BaptistImmersion-practicing Protestant
Catholic · Anglican · Pentecostal · Lutheran · Methodist · pool · Jordan
christening
Ceremony naming a child
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- fontCharacter style set
- godparentsBaptismal sponsors for children
holy water · immersion · sprinkling · blessing · infant · congregation · minister · priest · vows · grace
introduction
Preliminary section or presentation
- beginningInitial stage of something
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- debutFirst public appearance
first experience · trial · induction · rite of passage · welcome · entrance · threshold · newcomer · orientation · maiden voyage
fire
Combustion with flames
hardship · awakening · transformation · purification · renewal · rebirth · cleansing · symbolic · metaphorical · turning point
aspersion
Defamatory remark
- confirmationEstablishing something as true
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- MormonLatter-day Saint adherent
Baptist · Catholic · Anglican · Pentecostal · Lutheran · Methodist · pool · Jordan
- ceremonieswedding ceremony, wedding, weddings, graduation, graduations
- church lifechurch attendance, worship service, prayer group, youth group, church music
- EasterEaster egg, Easter eggs, Easter basket, Easter Sunday, Easter dinner
- Southern culturesweet tea, grits, fried chicken, front porch, barbecue
- American Catholicismarchdiocese, parish council, archdioceses, Catholic school, Catholic schools
- Catholic missionsmission work, missionary work, foreign missions, Jesuits, Franciscans
baptismsfunerals
Rites for the deceased
last rites · death rites · burials · memorial services · wakes
baptismsdamnations
Consignments to hell
desecrations · defilements · condemnations · profanations · sacrileges
baptismsexcommunications
Expulsions from religious membership
apostasies · anathemas · expulsions · defections · renunciations
- baptism by fireDifficult first test
- baptism of fireDifficult first exposure
- baptismal fontVessel for sacramental water
- baptism of JesusMessiah's ritual submersion
- adult baptismSacrament for professing converts
- water baptismSacramental cleansing rite
baptism, baptismal, Anabaptist, baptise, baptised, rebaptism, rebaptised, baptism by fire, baptism of fire