Dear Tatiana, Sometimes it sounds too funny to hear some old people speaking wisdom. However, remember the 4th commandment in the Bible. A Prophet is someone God uses to deliver message to you with confirmation. It is for the children betterness in the future. Local Priest kept on pressurizing for the Baptism of the child.
My friend had also said that Church may baptize the child as it is his right as she was delivered by christian women however church should keep the father of the child column blank; further if she want to add someone else name she is free to do it.
However the tribunal court Bishop house asked to baptize the child without informing the husband of the mother of the child and has also added his name of the father above that they have also issue the baptism certificate to the mother of the child.
Was it fare. We believe that church has made injustice with my friend. Hi, my name is BrittAny. Brittany if you want to get baptized in the Catholic church, it would take six months. You would go once a week to learn things about the Catholic church.
To get Baptized in a non Catholic church is allot easier. Pick a church you like, When they have a song at the end of the church inviting those who want to get saved, you just walk up to the front of the church. Tell the preacher what you would like to do, and he will set up a day for you to get baptized. I have a situation that I need a Catholic priest to clarify.
This church is the 22nd fastest growing church in the nation. Her mom continues to verbally reprimand her child for her baptism. Her mom has told her that this has ruined her family and damaged relationships.
All because a mom believes her child was not ready for baptism. I strongly believe that if God calls a person to act upon what their faith dictates them to do, who is to say otherwise. Please correct me if I am wrong. Just wondering what a Catholic view would be on this matter. Maybe the mother felt her daughter should have been baptized in the Catholic church. But the Catholic church does recognize if someone was baptized in another church, and wants to convert to become a Catholic.
The person would have to show a paper saying when they where baptized. Like proof of being baptized. Well Robbie, as long as the proper form and matter were used, she is now baptised and cannot be baptised again even in the Catholic Church. Form and matter is simply invoking the Trinity, I baptise you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and you use water. Hopefully Mom and daughter can make up and even go see a priest and ask to come back into communion with the Catholic Church.
Both were baptized in the Catholic Church. We are not going to find new Godparents. Is this the case at all Catholic Churches? Most priests want the god parents to have been confirmed and be actively practicing the religion going to church regularly.
I Think some churches are more strict than others. Canon of the Code of Canon Law says that sponsors godparents are to be given insofar as possible. They are not required. Please help me with this. I have been through so much and at the age of 25 I got diagnosed with a terminal illness. Losing my faith was basically took over me. I want my faith back. I am baptized as catholic but want to be recleanes and rebaptized still as a catholic.
Can I be rebaptized? I believe that partaking in the Sacrements of Reconcilliation will bring you the peace that you are searching for. Antoni, first let me say you are now on my prayer list. There is good news here for you but first the bad news. No you cannot be baptised a second time and no priest or deacon is going to do it not even at the Easter Vigil. The only condition for baptism is that you have never been baptised before.
So now the good news, the Catholic Church has two other Sacraments one of which is Penance, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, or known as confession. You need to have a priest come see you and make a full confession of your sins and Christ operating through the Priest will give you the pardon and peace you are looking for. Next when the illness takes it toll and you are nearing the end of your life here on earth tell your loved ones they are to call the priest to give you the anointing of the sick.
While the priest anoints you with oil and prays over you, you become reconciled with God and the whole Church. You will also receive a gift from the holy spirit, strength, peace and courage to endure the hardships you are facing. The most significant thing with this sacrament is the suffering you have been going through is united to the passion of Christ which is the very work of salvation.
This sacrament completes the conformity to Christs, suffering and death just where baptism started. I am newly engaged and beginning to make plans for our wedding. We are planning to get married at our venue. I am in the same situation as you. The christian faith was founded on the basis that it would be freely spread around the world.
Baptism is the first sacrament. As long as the sponsors parents or guardians of young children pledge to raise them as a christian then it should not be a problem. The one parent who is religious probably should be making their presence at the church you will be choosing to baptize your future children. This is just my interpretation. The baptismal promise includes the promise that you will do your best to raise your child in the Catholic faith.
Why would you want your child baptized in a faith that you do not want to get married in? Why would a priest do that? If you force them to go elsewhere or nowhere , there is almost no chance. If you are both already Catholic then you would have to be married by a priest, then later your kids can get baptized in the Catholic church. Why would the church withhold sacrament from the child for something the parents did?
That makes no sense to me. Seems very petty. If your Catholic, you should be married in a parish church where either you or you husband to be attend. However, the Bishop can make an exception if it is for a really good reason. That your Rose garden is a nicer place than the church is not a good reason.
As for the child to be baptised there has to be a founded hope on the part of the priest that the child will be raised in the Church. It could be a god parent who will take on this responsibility or grandma or grandpa. My 11 year old daughter attends a catholic school! We are not catholic and I was baptised in a apostolic church in the mid 80s! My daughter has decided she would like to be baptised!
We are more than happy for her faith to be nurtured! Contact your nearest Catholic church. They have RCIC classes Right of Christian Initiation for children which typically happen once a week during the school year and then end in the class getting baptized at the Easter vigil the day before Easter.
She may have to wait for the next class to start but that is how you would typically go about it. Pls give me guidance on this. My child was already baptized with a different date of birth appearing on the birthcert as we used the 2nd autheticated bcert. My husband decided to do it that way for a personal reason. However, we had an issue with the Birth registration and seems like it would be a long legal procedure to close out.
I am getting anxious since my child will. My husband ia about to rebaptize my son with his original birthdate for record purposes…so if something happens my child is already baptized with 2 diff dates and we will have no prob when. We are unsure of the outcome of the legal proceedings so we thought pf doing this. Is this a sin? What happened to my child when.
Hi Maria, your situation seems very confusing. First of all, there should not have been two different sets of dates on any of the certificates. A certificate is proof of the actual celebration, in other words, the date and information of when and where the actual baptism took place.
The dates should never have been changed for any reason since those records are considered official and should not be altered in any way. If corrections to the original record are necessary, then the Pastor should include an addendum on the Baptism Registry. If there was an unintentional error made I could understand the two different dates, however, once the mistake was discovered it should have been corrected right of way.
I would like to suggest that you contact the parish where the Baptism took place and make sure the correct date when the baptism took place is what is actually in the Baptism Registry. As you can now understand, I am sure, this is one of the reasons why we should not play around with these matters. It will always come back to hunt us. The good thing here is that there is still time to correct past errors.
Sharing this information with him will also help you to better understand how to resolve this issue. I was married the first time through the Justice of the Peace. My recent Husband and I have now been married for 30 yrs but not through the Catholic Church. He is non-Catholic. My daughter asked me to be God Mother to my Granddaughter and was told by my church that I could not be God mother because I was not married through the church.
Mary Jane, in the eyes of the Catholic Church your marriage is invalid, very easy to fix though. Go see a priest and ask to be married in the Catholic Church.
Either way though you have to go through the same process as anyone else asking for marriage. Check out the Archdiocese website for information but it does include marriage preparation course even thought you have 30 years experience. Then you will have a licit and valid marriage in the eyes of the Church.
You can do this even if your husband is non-catholic, just follow the advice of the priest, there is a disparity of cult form etc. You would have to convert, and that would take six months of learning about the Catholic church. You would go once a week for six months. You are wrong.
You can marry a catholic and not convert. They do not even have to be baptized if they are not catholic. You can not have a full mass. But you can get married in the church. But 2 years ago he took rcia classes and now is a very active member. I did not insist he join you have to decide for yourself. You have to convert for yourself not because someone wants you to. We raised our children catholic. I have been baptized.
I come from a Pentecostal Church. I want to send my child to a Catholic school. I know the School request for the child or either parent to be baptize and to be able to confirm the baptism certificate…. Would I be able to use the certificate from my church or do i need to get baptized again at a Catholic church? Catholics belive in one baptism only for the forgiveness of sin. They do, however, recognize baptisms from some non-catholic denominations.
Thank you for the useful information! I am working on a religion project about baptism and this site helped a great amount! Thank you so much!!
I was baptized in a baptist church. I was married to a catholic in the church but now divorced. I have 3 children from my first marriage all raised Catholic and attended catholic school.
I remarried a catholic by a justice of the peace. We have a new baby of our own we are desperate to baptize. We want the child to be raised in the church and attend school where his half-brother and sisters attended.
We want his half brothers and sisters to be godparents but although they attended catholic school do not actively practice now and were not confirmed. We still dont seem to meet the requirements to have our son baptized. What can we do? How would i get my younger son baptized his son to be godmom is a doctor and i believe she loves out of the Philadelphia area and i would let to know if she would be able to go to her neighborhood catholic church in order to take up the classes in order for her to baptized my son she is a Catholic and her hours are tight she works at the doctor office and the hospital i went to the Catholic Church in my area they said i would have to come to the church with the soon to be godparents next week to attend for several weeks and my older son son to be godmom also for my other child lives out of state also in Mn how would she also go about that?
Only issue is, he as well would like to get him baptized but under his church. He is a seventh day Adventist and I am catholic. Its only fair for the both of us to respect eachothers religion.
Is it at all possible to have our child baptized under two different churches? Typically Christian churches respect and recognize a baptism celebrated in another church. This is not true of all but most Christian churches. Those same churches generally recognize that once a baptism is celebrated it can not and should not be celebrated again.
It is really more important how you and your husband will educate your child than choosing one church in which to have the baptism. You will be the primary educators for him in ways of faith. My husband and I married in the Catholic church and want to baptize our daughter in the Catholic church. We would like either one of our siblings to baptize her. However, each of our siblings were baptized Catholic, however have married non-Catholics outside the church. Do we need to have a godparent?
Can either one of us be the godparent? Only a priest or deacon may baptize. Is your child in danger of immediate death? You need to have one godparent at least who is over 16, received confirmation and a Catholic in good standing attends Mass, in a recognized marriage or single, not divorced.
A parent cannot be a godparent. Speak to your pastor if you cannot find a confirmed catholic to be a godparent. A question… Why do you want siblings to do the baptism rather than a priest? Baptism is a serious matter. The issue that would need to be resolved is that either of your siblings would need to have their marriage blessed, or convalidated the church term so their marriages may be recognized by the Church. It is not an issue that they married non-Catholics. One of your siblings would need to approach their parish priest and start the process.
You would want the sponsor of your child to be a practicing Catholic as the godparent role is to aid in the Catholic upbringing of the child. Hello i was wondering i was baptized when i was 9 years of age but i recently had a baby and my godparents were wondering if they can baptize my baby?
People that are not a priest or deacon may only baptize when the person to be baptized is in danger of death and it is an emergency situation.
My sister in law recently had a baby and has asked her brother and I to be Godparents to our neice. We are the only family practicing our faith. Her other siblings are not. Would we be allowed to be Godparents? Hi, my brother is baptizing his baby soon and has asked me to be the godmother. I was baptized as a baby but apparently have not met the other requirements confirmation and communion or holy Eucharist I am now 23 years old.
How long does this process last? To be confirmed and do the communion. And also, if you did this process as a young child, do you have to prove this somehow? What if someone was baptized confirmed and did the Eucharist in another country? How do you obtain proof? How long it takes for communion and confirmation varies, you should contact your nearest church.
I just baptised my daughter and what was required from the godparents was proof of their baptism. To get this proof you have to go to the church your were baptised or have some relative that lives in that country get it for you. To make sure you fulfill all requirements it would be better for you to ask in the church that your brother is baptising his baby. When one receives Holy Communion and Confirmation, certificates are given to to the recipient. There is documentation and it can be retrieved.
Can unmarried couple baptize their child? Is it true? They can get their child Baptised as long as they promise to raise and educate their child in the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church. During our elementry school years we had gone to both the lutheran and catholic churches just a few times,mainly during the holidays,when we were 13,our dad had a heart attack and was in the hospital for quite a while.
The hospital chaplain,who was a priest,came in and visited dad quite often and comforted him and also talked to mom and us and urged us to come to mass at his parish and see what its like. After dad recovered and got back to normal,we went to mass at the parish a few times and after talking to the priest after two years our parents decided to join the parish. Father talked to the four of us and told we would go thru orientation and then me and sis would have to be baptized,then be enrolled in the classes and make our first communions and then be confirmed.
Two weeks later we met with the baptism director and went thru the baptism classes for a month. We were then told that that since we were new and to start off on the right foot we had to be baptized as infants thru the infant baptism program.
The baptism director then told us that we have to wear all white baptism outfits and handed me and sis and our parents a sheet listing the required outfit. Sis and i looked at it and were flabbergasted to see on the list that we had to wear a white,knee length,infant style baptism gown with a matching bonnet.
She then told mom and dad that the outfit is absolute and must be worn for the baptism. Mom and dad then ordered our gown and bonnet and the white plastic pants and told mom and dad they were responsible for our under shirt,cloth diaper,tights and shoes.
Mom made me and sis the cloth diaper,and we got our tights and under shirt and mary jane shoes. We turned 15 a week later and two weeks later,on sunday morning,mom and our god mom dressed us in the outfit and we were baptized as infants during the mass. A year later at 16 we made our first holy communions and then were confirmed at At my parish,all of the girls being baptized,both preteen and teen,wear the Infant type outfit for their baptisms at easter vigil and are baptized as babies.
The white infant style gown with a matching bonnet and white tights and white patent leather shoes is the standard out fit. A cloth diaper and rubberpants is worn under their tights with a white under shirt as their top. Afew girls in the past have worn the poofy,midthigh length baptism dress with the bonnet,tights etc.
I have seen girls up to 18 wearing the infant baptism outfits and they looked very pure and innocent. At easter vigil,the girls are considered as babies and are baptized right along with the regular infants,Our daughter is now 18,and we had her baptized at easter vigil two years ago when she was 16 and she wore the gown and matching bonnet with the tights and patent leather shoes and had the cloth diaper and rubberpants under her tights with the white under shirt and she was baptized with the infants.
All of the girls who were baptized at easter vigil are required to wear their baptism diaper,rubberpants,tights and under shirt under their first communion dresses,since they are newly baptized babies.
To Lucille M. I was considered an infant for my baptism. My son and daughter in law are divorcing. She filed, and they have 4 kids, she had 1 child from another relationship, and my son adopted her. Divorce is file because of her mental condition. He does not want the divorce, but there is no-fault in our state. Their 7 yr old daughter, who is attending a Catholic school, is to be baptized this Sunday.
She was dedicated at the couples church when she was an infant. Daughter in law is going back to Catholic faith, son was raised in the Christian faith. There is no problem with the child being baptized, but feel my son should have input in this. Question the motives of many involved in this. Just hurry this baptism through. The vows have you before God, stating that you will raise this child in the faith. While a divorce is something that God hates. I am assuming the child will be in the primary custody of the mother, so it seems she will be raising the child in the Catholic faith that she has rediscovered.
The most important issue is that the child be baptized, and the sooner, the better. My 11month old son is to be baptised at this end of the month after months of issues with my in-laws.
I have now been told by our old-fashioned priest that the sponsors we have chosen are not adequate. My sister and my uncle. My sister then married outside of the church but never joined another church. Do the sponsors both have to be catholics? I have been told by a reliable source that only 1of them has to be a practicing catholic. He said that one of the godparents needs to be catholic, not both.
Hi my name is Julie I am 12 years old and I am. Please help me! Thank you, Jennifer. Grandparents baptizing a baby without parental knowledge and when there is no emergency, is not a valid baptism. The parents need to desire the baby be baptized, and it needs to be done by priest, or deacon.
I have a friend that is concerned for her grandchild that has not been baptized. The parents are not concerned to do this. Someone told her she could baptize the baby herself. Can she? The parents should consent to the baptism of their child. Hi there, I baptized my two youngest 3 and 2 myself today because I am very afraid that something might happen to them when I am not around to perform an immediate emergency baptism.
I was raised in Catholic faith and my husband is not. He did become catholic later on but he wants to wait till somebody from his side of the family comes from overseas so we can baptize our children in our church. I really want them baptized so I did it myself. Did I do a good thing? Is this baptism valid? Laura Leddy Turner began her writing career in She has worked in the newspaper industry as an illustrator, columnist, staff writer and copy editor, including with Gannett and the Asbury Park Press.
Turner holds a B. Regardless of how old we are, we never stop learning. Classroom is the educational resource for people of all ages. Based on the Word Net lexical database for the English Language. See disclaimer. Digital Vision. About the Author Laura Leddy Turner began her writing career in The prayers of the faithful prayers for others follow. Then the infant is anointed with the oil of catechumens.
This is to symbolise the healing of God and to ward off evil. At the font — firstly the water is blessed, then the priest asks the parents and godparents to make vows on behalf of the child. For example:. There is one blessing for the mother, one for the father and one for friends and family present. Form, Intent, and Why They Matter.
Here are just a couple of the biggest areas of symbolism in a Catholic baptism:. The baptismal font is the large bowl of holy water where most baptisms take place.
The earliest baptismal fonts in the Western Church were found in the catacombs of Rome, where indoor baptisms would take place. Baptismal fonts were moved to churches in the fourth century A. Small baptismal fonts are located at all doors within a church, which we dip our fingers in upon entering or exiting, blessing ourselves in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Water is the essential matter within a baptism. It is so to symbolize that Jesus is living water, and as we are cleansed during the sacrament, we are welcomed both into the Church and into eternal life. Water is also a symbol of divine life, grace, new birth, growth, deliverance, power, and the covenant God established with his people, first through Abraham.
A baptismal gown is the outfit worn by the one receiving baptism. Traditionally, the gown is white. This is to signify Christian dignity, and the act of becoming a new creature through the sacrament. The color white is also to symbolize being clothed with Christ, as we are cleansed from sin. The baptismal candle that is lit during the ceremony is also used as the Easter candle.
The lighting of the candle represents the flame of faith, which is to be kept burning throughout the life of the baptized. Additionally, the candle symbolizes the risen Christ, as he is the light of the world. Two of the three holy oils are used during a baptism. The first is the oil of catechumens. This oil is used to bless the child before the actual baptism takes place, in order to strengthen the recipient and prepare them for the sacrament. The second oil used is the Sacred Chrism, which is considered the most important of the three holy oils.
The Chrism is not only used during the sacrament of baptism, but also during confirmation, holy orders, and at the consecration of a church. Early on in Church history, this olive oil was used for several different functions, such as welcoming guests into a home, cooking, medicating the ill, preparing a body for burial, and many other practices. The earliest formula of blessing the oils for sacramental use was first found during the fourth century in the Prayer Book of Serapion.
The use of the three oils comes from the instructions of Jesus himself, as we see him asking the apostles to anoint the sick Mark The apostles passed this custom on throughout the years James , giving us the practice of using them still today.
Many of the Church fathers have written on the importance of blessing the newly baptized with sacred oils. The oils are held in vessels called stocks and are placed in an ambry or cabinet until they are needed. Chrism is used to consecrate persons, setting them apart for God, while the oil of catechumens is used for those seeking baptism, and the oil of the infirm is used while anointing the sick or dying.
Baptisms are a family affair, not just for the individual but for the Church as well! Today, most people are baptized as infants by a priest or deacon, though this is not strictly necessary see below. The parents present the child for baptism while the godparents are present as witnesses. Although any lay person can baptize in certain emergency situations see FAQs below , it is preferred to have a priest administer the sacrament of baptism.
In ordinary language it usually means being delegated by someone to be present in his place, to speak and act in his stead because the person he represents is absent from the practical action.
This does not mean, however, that Christ is absent in the Church and in the roles of the priest. Instead, it infers that:. It is thus believed that the priest is the best member of the Church, given practical circumstances, to administer the sacrament of baptism. John the Baptist tells the people he is baptizing in Matthew :.
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