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Annunciation Parish Infant Baptism Preparation Classes:
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Deadline for Registration |
Instruction Date |
Baptism Date |
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July 21, 2008 |
August 11, 2008 |
August 30 & 31, 2008 |
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August 18, 2008 |
September 8,
2008 |
September 27 & 28, 2008 |
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September 22,
2008 |
October 13,
2008 |
October 26, 2008 |
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October 20,
2008 |
November 10,
2008 |
November 22 & 23, 2008 |
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November 17,
2008 |
December 8,
2008 |
December 27 & 28, 2008 |
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INFANT BAPTISM PREPARATION
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 Lent.
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Call Melanie at 298-7553 for information on Baptism for ages Newborn- 6
years old.
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Call Sr. Grace at 296-0411 for information on Baptism for ages 7+
years old.
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Call Mary Agnes at 299-9111 for information on Adult baptism and R.C.I.A.

The Necessity of Baptism
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
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