Patristic Quote of the Day

From what has been said it is thus evident that from all the visible acts in Baptism, from the very order itself, the names which we call it, the ceremonies which are performed in it, and the words which accompany it, we learn that the life in Christ receives the beginning of its existence from the baptismal washing. -- St. Nicholas Cabasilas, *The Life in Christ* pp. 75, 76