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  2. Infant baptism - Wikipedia

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    Water is poured on the head of an infant held over the baptismal font of a Catholic church. Infant baptism [1] [2] (or paedobaptism) is the practice of baptizing infants or young children. Infant baptism is also called christening by some faith traditions. Most Christians belong to denominations that practice infant baptism.

  3. Sacraments of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Catholic Church sees baptism as the first and basic sacrament of Christian initiation. [27] In the Western or Latin Church , baptism is usually conferred today by pouring water three times on the recipient's head, while reciting the baptismal formula: "I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit " (cf ...

  4. Matthew 3:16 - Wikipedia

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    This makes the event a more private one, and helps explain why the crowds depicted as watching the baptism in Luke do not become aware of Jesus' status. [3] The dove imagery in this passage, and in the corresponding verse in Luke, is a well known one. Based on this verse the dove has long been a symbol for the Holy Spirit in Christian art ...

  5. Apostles' Creed - Wikipedia

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    The Apostles' Creed, whose present form is similar to the baptismal creed used in Rome in the third and fourth centuries, actually developed from questions addressed to those seeking baptism. [28] The Catholic Church still today uses an interrogative form of it in the Rite of Baptism (for both children and adults).

  6. Affusion - Wikipedia

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    Receiving this baptism was regarded as a bar to Holy Orders, but this sprang from the person's having put off baptism until the last moment—a practice that in the fourth century became common, with people enrolling as catechumens but not being baptized for years or decades. While the practice was decried at the time, the intent of the ...

  7. Catechism - Wikipedia

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    A Catholic response to Luther's catechisms of the previous year. Anglicanized English version 1533 A Playne and Godly Exposition or Declaration of the Commune Crede: Summa Doctrinae Christianae 1555 Peter Canisius: For clergy, children, and adolescents respectively Catechismus minimus 1556 Parvus Catechismus catholicorum 1559

  8. Immersion baptism - Wikipedia

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    A full-immersion baptism in a New Bern, North Carolina river at the turn of the 20th century. 15th-century painting by Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, Florence. Immersion baptism (also known as baptism by immersion or baptism by submersion) is a method of baptism that is distinguished from baptism by affusion (pouring) and by aspersion (sprinkling), sometimes without specifying whether the ...

  9. Christian child's prayer - Wikipedia

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    Catholic and Orthodox Christians have their own set of children's prayers, often invoking Mary, Mother of Jesus, angels, or the saints, and including a remembrance of the dead. Some adult prayers are equally popular with children, such as the Golden Rule ( Luke 6:31 , Matthew 7:12 ), the Doxology , the Serenity Prayer , John 3:16 , Psalm 145:15 ...