Bishop Vincent performed the Sacrament of Baptism in the cathedraltranslated

In the Spassky Cathedral of the city of Tara, Bishop Vikenty of Tara and Tyukalinsky performed the Sacrament of Baptism R.B. George (Yuri).

At the end of the service, Bishop Vikenty, in his parting words, congratulated George and his successor Daniel, an activist in the Tara youth movement, wished health and God's help to them and all their relatives and friends, and also presented the newly enlightened icon of the Great Martyr George the Victorious.

The Orthodox Catechism gives the following definition of this Sacrament: Baptism (Greek vaptisis - immersion) is a Sacrament in which the believer, by immersing the body three times in water, with the invocation of God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, dies to a carnal, sinful life, and is reborn from the Holy Spirit into a spiritual, holy life. Since Baptism is a spiritual birth, and a person is born once, this Sacrament is not repeated.

The purpose of the Sacrament. The fruit of a person’s Baptism should be that he stops living for himself and begins to live for Christ and other people, gaining the fullness of life in this. A necessary condition for the acceptance of this great Sacrament by an adult is firm faith and repentance for all sins committed before Baptism. This Sacrament...