What Happens at an Orthodox Baptism — and After?
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
The Orthodox baptismal rite and life afterward: prayer, the sacraments, spiritual struggle, and pastoral guidance for the newly illumined.
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A 20-part reading guide drawn from Entering the Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos. These parish articles introduce catechesis, the Creed, Baptism, and life in the Church. Read them in the order below; each lesson links to the next.
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- How Did the Early Church Prepare People for Baptism?
- What Is a Catechumen?
- What Is Orthodox Catechism?
- Why Are We Called Christians?
- Who Is the God of the Christians?
- What Is Man, and What Was His Fall?
- What Is the Church, and What Is Her Work?
- What Is the Communion of Saints?
- What Is the Ascetic Life?
- Who Are the Healthy and Sick Members of the Church?
- Why Does the Church Have a Creed?
- “I Believe in One God, Maker of All Things Visible and Invisible”
- “One Lord Jesus Christ… Light of Light, True God of True God”
- “For Us and for Our Salvation He Came Down and Became Man”
- The Cross, the Resurrection, and the Coming Kingdom
- “And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life”
- “In One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church”
- “I Acknowledge One Baptism for the Remission of Sins”
- “I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead, and the Life of the Age to Come”
- What Happens at an Orthodox Baptism — and After?
“I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead, and the Life of the Age to Come”
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
The Creed’s final hope: the resurrection of the whole person, the relics of the saints as its foretaste, the two ways of experiencing eternity, and the two meanings of Amen.
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“I Acknowledge One Baptism for the Remission of Sins”
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
Baptism as birth into the Body of Christ: water and the Spirit, remission of sins as healing rather than legal acquittal, and the path from the font to the Chalice.
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“In One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church”
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
The Church as the Body of Christ who wrote the very Scriptures: her oneness in the undivided Lamb, her holiness from her Head, her catholicity and apostolic succession.
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“And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life”
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
The divinity of the Holy Spirit: the Creed’s three titles, the procession from the Father, why the filioque is rejected, and life in the Spirit who forms Christ in us.
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The Cross, the Resurrection, and the Coming Kingdom
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
Christ’s saving love in the Cross and Resurrection, His descent into Hades, the hope of the risen body, and the coming Kingdom.
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“For Us and for Our Salvation He Came Down and Became Man”
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
The Divine Economy: why the Word became man, the Theotokos and her purity, the two natures united without confusion, and the blameless passions Christ freely bore.
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“One Lord Jesus Christ… Light of Light, True God of True God”
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
The divinity of the Word in the Creed: the three names of the Savior, the eternal begetting, the uncreated light of Tabor, and the answer to Arius.
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“I Believe in One God, Maker of All Things Visible and Invisible”
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
The Creed’s first article: personal faith and the Church’s faith, God the Pantocrator who sustains all, the angels and the fallen spirits, and man at creation’s summit.
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Why Does the Church Have a Creed?
Fr. Ayman Kfouf
August 26, 2026
Creeds from the New Testament to Nicaea: why the Church wrote them, the baptismal confessions inside Scripture, and the five central points of the Symbol of Faith.
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- What Happens at an Orthodox Baptism — and After?
- “I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead, and the Life of the Age to Come”
- “I Acknowledge One Baptism for the Remission of Sins”
- “In One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church”
- “And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life”
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Articles on the Orthodox Christian faith from Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral in Coral Gables, Florida.
