Baptism of Hattie Elizabeth

“In Baptism are fulfilled the pledges of our covenant with God; burial and death, resurrection and life; and these take place all at once. For when we are immersed in the water, the old man is buried as in a tomb below, and wholly sunk forever; then as we are raised again, the new man rises in its stead. As it is easy for us to immerse and to lift out again, so it is easy for God to bury the old man, and to show forth the new.” – St John Chrysostom