Annunciation Parish Infant Baptism Preparation Classes & Baptism Dates:
2011 DATES:
Baptism Class:
Monday, December 12, 2011
Baptism Date:
December 17 & 18, 20122
2012 DATES
| Deadline for Registration | Instruction Date | Baptism Date |
| December 19, 2011 | January 9, 2012 | January 21 & 22, 2012 |
| Janaury 23, 2012 | February 13, 2012 | February 26, 2012 -- 1:15 PM with Deacon *Lent - baptisms are not celebrated during Mass |
| February 20, 2012 | March 12, 2012 | March 25, 2012-- 1:15 PM with Deacon *Lent - baptisms are not celebrated during Mass |
| March 29, 2012 | April 9, 2012 | April 28 & 29, 2012 |
| April 16, 2012 | May 14, 2012 | May 19 & 20, 2012 |
| May 21, 2012 | June 11, 2012 | June 23 & 24, 2012 |
| June 18, 2012 | July 9, 2012 | July 28 & 29, 2012 |
| July 23, 2012 | August 13, 2012 | August 25 & 26, 2012 |
| August 20, 2012 | September 10, 2012 | September 29 & 30, 2012 |
| September 17, 2012 | October 8, 2012 | October 27 & 28, 2012 |
| October 22, 2012 | November 12, 2012 | November 17 & 18, 2012 |
| November 19, 2012 | December 10, 2012 | December 15 & 16, 2012 |
Parents and Godparents seeking baptism for a child have a responsibility to attend a baptism preparation session before the Baptism takes place. Annunciation Parish offers a Baptism Preparation instruction class once a month, on the 2nd Monday of each month from 7:00 - 9:00 PM. Parents should carefully consider choosing a saint’s name for their child, perhaps a role model whose life reflects the hopes and aspirations for this God-given child. Please contact the Parish office to register and for more information.
Baptisms usually take place on the 4th weekend of the month except November and December (3rd weekend due to the holidays.) There are no baptisms during Mass during Lent.
Christians have always interpreted the Bible literally when it declares, "Baptism . . . now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 3:21; cf. Acts 2:38, 22:16, Rom. 6:3–4, Col. 2:11–12).
Thus the early Church Fathers wrote in the Nicene Creed (A.D. 381), "We believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins."
And the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "The Lord himself affirms that baptism is necessary for salvation [John 3:5]. . . . Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament [Mark 16:16]" (CCC 1257).
The Christian belief that baptism is necessary for salvation is so unshakable that even the Protestant Martin Luther affirmed the necessity of baptism. He wrote: "Baptism is no human plaything but is instituted by God himself. Moreover, it is solemnly and strictly commanded that we must be baptized or we shall not be saved. We are not to regard it as an indifferent matter, then, like putting on a new red coat. It is of the greatest importance that we regard baptism as excellent, glorious, and exalted" (Large Catechism 4:6).
Catholic Answers, “The Necessity of Baptism” (San Diego: Catholic Answers, 2004)
http://www.catholic.com/library/Necessity_of_Baptism.asp