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§2. Those baptized in a non-Catholic ecclesial community must not be baptized conditionally unless, after an examination of the matter and the form of the words used in the conferral of baptism and a consideration of the intention of the baptized adult and the minister of the baptism, a serious reason exists to doubt the validity of the baptism.
One of the earliest of the Church Fathers to enunciate clearly and unambiguously the doctrine of baptismal regeneration ("the idea that salvation happens at and by water baptism duly administered") was Cyprian (c. 200 – 258): "While he attributed all the saving energy to the grace of God, he considered the 'laver of saving water' the instrument of God that makes a person 'born again ...
Baptism also unites the baptized with Christ's history, meaning that the person can be said to have died, been buried, and raised again just as Christ was. [39] The baptized person's identity in Christ is based on Christ's action in baptism rather than the person's action. [40] This union also unites Christians to one another. [41]
Given once for all, baptism cannot be repeated: just as a man can be born only once, so he is baptized only once. For this reason the holy Fathers added to the Nicene Creed the words We acknowledge one Baptism. [234] Sanctifying grace, the grace of justification, given by God by baptism, erases the original sin and personal actual sins. [235]
3. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” — Maya Angelou 4. “Life is pleasant, death is peaceful.
Debaptism is the practice of reversing a baptism.Most Christian churches see baptism as a once-in-a-lifetime event that can be neither repeated nor undone.They hold that those who have been baptized remain baptized, even if they renounce the Christian faith by adopting a non-Christian religion or by rejecting religion entirely.
81. "To the world, you may be one person, but to one person, you are the world." — Dr. Seuss. 82. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is ...
Baptismal vows are taken by the candidate, godparents, or parents when an individual receives the sacrament of baptism.. Baptismal vows are the renunciations required of an adult candidate for baptism just before the sacrament is conferred. [1]