[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 25, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E353]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           CELEBRATING THE BAPTISM OF BRIANA JULIET GOLDBERG

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                             HON. JIM BANKS

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 25, 2023

  Mr. BANKS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the birth and 
baptism of Briana Juliet Goldberg.
  Born to Adam and Rebecca on February 10, weighing 7 pounds and 4 
ounces, Briana now prepares to be born again on Sunday, May 7 at Saint 
Lawrence Roman Catholic Church into the death and life of her Lord and 
Savior Jesus Christ.
  Saint Paul writes in the Book of Romans chapter 6 verses 3 and 4, 
``Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ 
Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him 
through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the 
dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness 
of life.''
  I join Adam, Rebecca, and the communion of saints in celebrating this 
saving flood and washing away of sin, and gift of new life by the Holy 
Spirit. We hear as Nicodemus did, to whom Jesus said in the third 
chapter of the Gospel of John: ``Most assuredly, I say to you, unless 
one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.''
  This stands as testament to the love that Adam and Rebecca, her 
sisters Sophie and Elizabeth, and that God Himself has for Briana by 
giving to her life in this world and the next. As Jesus commanded His 
disciples in the Book of John, chapter 13 verse 34, ``A new commandment 
I give to you, that you love one another; as l have loved you, that you 
also love one another.'' (John 13:34)

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