Baptisms

Call Elizabeth Crosby at the Church Office, 388-2681.

Holy Baptism is full initiation by water and the Holy Spirit into Christ’s Body the Church. Holy Baptism is appropriately administered within the Eucharist at the chief service on a Sunday or other feast day.

Each candidate for Holy Baptism is to be sponsored by one or more baptized persons. Parents and godparents are to be instructed in the meaning of Baptism, in their duties to help the new Christians grow in the knowledge and love of God, and in their responsibilities as members of his Church.

Parents are required to meet with the officiating clergy prior to the baptismal service, usually the Saturday prior to the service.

In our baptismal service, the whole congregation joins the parents and godparents in making the promises on behalf of the child. This underscores the sharing of the adoption of the candidate into the wider family of Christ’s Body the Church, rather than limiting it to a private affair.

Holy Baptism is appropriately administered within the Eucharist as the chief service on a Sunday or other feast day. Holy Baptism is especially appropriate at the Easter Vigil, on the Day of Pentecost, on All Saints’ Sunday, and on the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord (the first Sunday after Epiphany). Other dates are set by the clergy. The 2009 schedule is as follows:

• May 31 Pentecost Sunday
  
• June 21 Father's Day
  
• August 2
• September 13
• November 1 All Saints' Day
  

  2010
  January 10
  Feb 14 Last Sunday in Epiphany
  April 4 Easter
  April 18 Confirmation Sunday-tentative date
  May 23 Pentecost
  June 20
  August 1

  
  

“Train up the children in the way they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)