“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together (Eucharist – V. A.), as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord. And again, ‘The Lord will judge His people.’ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!” (Heb. 10: 25-31).
“One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift” (Eph. 4: 5-7). (One baptism – one Marriage with Christ, because one Lord-Husband, – even if the Marital (baptismal) bonds of the “first Love” break (see Rev. 2: 4) of the Christian with Christ, who succumbs to the temptation of Satan and commits adultery with idols-demons, then when he comes to his senses and remembers where he fell from, Whom he betrayed, in repentance renounces Satan and his temptations and remembers Christ’s Love for him and in repentance returns to the Husband-Christ, – then he enters not into a new Marriage (not into marriage with another man, as happens in this age), but into the same (the only one): you and Christ. Repentance-confession – restoration of Marital life in Christ – is the rite of the Sacrament of Baptism! Even if you fall away a thousand times (in practice it is possible – a maximum of once, as an exception – twice; after a greater number of falls in this form of existence no one survives!), – but faithfulness (faithfulness to Christ) is one, unfaithfulness is many, because there are many idols, and faith-faithfulness is one, because there is one Lord, deceptions-illusions are many, and Truth is one. No matter how many attempts there are to enter into the one Marriage, into one faith-knowledge of the only Lord – this will always be the realization of this one faith-faithfulness of the one Marriage (for the remission of sins, for the healing of a person in God), into which we enter with one baptism for faithful life in Christ, for the remission of sins, renounce fornication-adultery with a multitude of idols-demons and return to the only Lord! Therefore, there are many unfaithfulnesses-adulteries, but baptism-union with Christ is one, lords-idols-demons are many, but the Lord is one! Therefore, when the Church testifies about “one…” (baptism, chrismation, wedding…), “one…” (Lord, Marriage…), “one…” (Church, ordination…), – it is not about heretical arithmetic of quantity and ordinal numbers, but about Catholic Truth and Love! But a dead man-letter writer clings to the letter, which immediately fills with his deadly poison, with which he kills himself! Let him who has eyes to hear, let him understand!).
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you” (Mt. 28: 19-20) – first TEACH, INTRODUCE TO CHRIST, ENAMOR WITH CHRIST, and then MARRY WITH CHRIST FOR PARISH-EUCHARISTIC LIFE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT! And after baptism, teach to keep faithfulness to Christ, to observe the commanded-transmitted – Parish-Eucharist! The Church according to the commandment (of Love and Truth) necessarily performs: catechetical instruction-announcement before Baptism-Marriage and mystical instruction after Baptism-Eucharist (existential knowledge of the Kingdom of God in the Sacrament of the Eucharist – communion of the faithful with Christ in the Holy Spirit).
“Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned” (Mark 16:16). First comes TRUST-FAITH (which can only be born through CATECHESIS-ENCOUNTERS with CHRIST-CHURCH – “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (that is, CATECHESIS in ENCOUNTERS with Christ-Church!)” (Romans 10:17)). The Church testifies that “whoever does not believe (does not trust the Church) will be condemned,” not: “whoever is not baptized will be condemned”! The one who believes-trusts the Church (and Its Gospel) will certainly be baptized by the Holy Spirit! One cannot fail to be baptized – to enter into marriage with Christ! And baptism without trust-faith in the Church leads to adultery and judgment, and condemnation – to perdition! It often happens that a person is worse off after unworthy baptism than before it. In unworthy baptism, the demon is driven out of the soul of the baptized with exorcism prayers, but since the Holy Spirit is not given, the house of the soul remains empty. Later, the expelled demon, having wandered through waterless places, returns to the soul with seven other spirits more wicked than itself, not forgetting the renunciation of him (the devil) and the spitting upon him! (see Matthew and Luke) Without faith-trust – baptism (the most canonical, the most correct) is not for the remission of sins, but for perdition and delusion!