Do you acknowledge your child's need of the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ, and the renewing grace of the Holy Spirit? Do you claim God's covenant promises in his behalf, and do you look in faith to the Lord Jesus Christ for his salvation, as you do for your own? Do you now unreservedly dedicate your child to God, and promise, in humble reliance upon divine grace, that you will endeavor to set before him a godly example, that you will pray with and for him , that you will teach him the doctrines of our holy religion, and that you will strive, by all the means of God's appointment, to bring him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord?
To the congregation optional : Do you as a congregation undertake the responsibility of assisting the parents in the Christian nurture of this child? As he pronounces these words, he is to baptize the child with water, by pouring or sprinkling it on the head of the child, without adding any other ceremony; and the whole shall be concluded with prayer.
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More search tips. Should I baptize my child myself? Question Can I baptize my child myself? What instructions should be given in the baptism of children? Some of the reason are:.
I think this is quite a common reason, but hopefully not the only reason. Or maybe you believe that all you need to do to get into heaven is get baptised and then heaven is a done deal. You can tick that one off the list. But maybe it is real and so you hedge your bets and want to get your child baptised just in case. Christian schools often offer high quality education and most parents will want to get their child into the best school possible that they can afford. This often means that there is more demand than available places at christian schools.
The criteria the school uses for selecting students may include if the child is baptised or not. The school wants to have children and families attending the school that have the same beliefs and values as the school does. This makes sense. I believe there are quite a few Catholic schools that use baptism as a selection criteria. However, this means more people will want to get their child baptised with the sole purpose of guaranteeing a good education.
You believe the things that Jesus said and did as recorded in the bible. As a result of this belief you want to know Jesus more and you also want your child to know him. You want your child to know how special God has made them and how much he loves them. Baptist church, in this case they may offer baby dedication instead. The church wants to baptise people. Churches want to baptise for the right reasons — belief in Jesus. So the pastor really needs to determine your motive to do his job well, hopefully without offending anyone.
Jesus also makes it clear that people are to be trained in his way of life and marked with baptism. Then to continue instructing them in practising all he has commanded:. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. Edgardo was the son of Jewish parents, who lived in Bologna.
As was true of all European nations in centuries past, the Papal States had an official state religion, which of course was Catholicism. Persons who lived in the Papal States, but were not Catholic, were therefore in violation of civil law! For centuries, however, Popes had allowed Jews to live in the Papal States unlike a number of other European nations, by the way, which banned Jews altogether , so Edgardo was lawfully being raised in the Jewish faith.
The Mortara family had a servant girl who was a Catholic, which incidentally was technically illegal: by law, Jews living in the Papal States were not permitted to have Catholic servants, out of concern that Catholics working in a non-Christian environment might ultimately lose their faith. When little Edgardo fell deathly ill, the girl baptized him, without telling his parents. Under civil not canon law at the time, a Catholic child could not be raised by non-Catholic parents—so Edgardo was forcibly taken away from his parents and sent to a Catholic orphanage in Rome.
Consequently, what was legal and considered reasonable back then is very different from what would be acceptable today! Eventually Edgardo became a Catholic priest seen here in a family photo , and tried unsuccessfully to convert his relatives to the Catholic faith. On top of the understandable familial distress, this incident ignited a political firestorm against Pope Pius IX and the Papal States—because it happened to occur at the time when anti-Catholic political forces in Europe were uniting against the Church, and were trying to seize the Papal States from the Pope in order to create a united Italy.
And the Duke of Savoy today a province of Italy used the Mortara case as a pretext to continue his efforts to galvanize military opposition to the papacy. In short, Edgardo and his family became a convenient excuse for anti-Catholic rulers to point disparaging fingers at the Pope. The Papal States were definitively conquered and forcibly annexed to the new nation of Italy only a few years later. History played out in this way, in part because a laywoman had baptized a baby on her own initiative.
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