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What happens at baptism?
  
The first sacrament is baptism. In it, we are born again, i.e., we leave behind a life without God to be reborn into a life centered in Christ. But to be reborn, we must first die.

Question: "Are you unaware that those who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?" (Romans 6:3)

Answer: "We were buried with him through a baptism into death, because just as Jesus was raised from death by the Father, we too can live a new life. By growing into union with him through a death like his, we will also be united to him in the resurrection."

(Romans 6:4-5)
 

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 628.

Baptism, the original and full sign of which is immersion, efficaciously signifies the descent into the tomb by the Christian who dies to sin with Christ in order to live a new life.

See also Col. 2:12 and Eph. 5:26.

What happens to our sins during baptism???

From the Catechism para. 1263.

By Baptism all sins are forgiven, Original Sin and all personal sins, as well as all punishment for sin. In those who have been reborn nothing remains that would impede their entry into the Kingdom of God, neither Adam's sin, nor personal sin, nor the consequences of sin, the gravest of which is separation from God.

What happens to our relationship with God?

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