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Translated from the Greek original by Fr. George Dion. Dragas

1. Baptism: the first necessary and mandatory Sacrament. As we all know and experience, our Holy Orthodox Church, the Body of Christ, is the Church of the Sacraments.

The first of these Sacraments, the introductory one, which introduces us and makes us organically members of the Church is the sacrament of Baptism.

In the OT we have the types of the real Baptism, the last of which is the baptism of repentance of St. John the Baptist who closes the Old Testament and opens the New One. “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, i.e. Jesus” (Acts 19.4).

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