Vatican City, Jan 13, 2013 / 12:39 pm
Pope Benedict XVI baptized children at the Vatican Sunday to mark the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, encouraging Christians to remember their own baptism and the "beauty of being born again."
"I would like to extend my prayer and my blessing to all newborns," he said Jan. 13 after baptizing numerous babies aged three to four months in the Sistine Chapel.
"I especially invite everyone to remember your baptism, that spiritual rebirth that has opened the way to eternal life," Pope Benedict said during his Angelus remarks in St. Peter's Square. "May every Christian rediscover the beauty of being born again from above, from the love of God, and live as a child of God."
The Pope said being a Christian means having a kind of life which involves a rebirth from God by grace.
"This rebirth is baptism, which Christ has given to the Church to regenerate men to new life," he said.