What does it mean to be baptised? This Lent we did what the Church suggests all those not baptised as adults should do, we made a journey through the course of Christian Initiation for Adults. It is fascinating. We followed the preparations taking place in Churches and Cathedrals around the country with the Catecheses and Scrutinies of the rite. It centres around the gospels of the Samaritan Woman, the Blind Man and Lazarus; these were presented a dramatized monologues - and we include the texts in the following sections.
TMD's Lent banner, above, depicted the three gospels, all of them images of Baptism.
On the left, the Samaritan Woman, dimunitive in stature, but powerful in personality, clasps her water jar to her.
On the right, Christ gazes through the eyes of the blind man.
In the centre, the Lord raises Lazarus out of the waters of death.
