“No one may share the Eucharist with us unless he believes that what we teach is true, unless he is washed in the regenerating waters of Baptism for the remission of his sins, and unless he lives in accordance with the teaching given us by Christ.” -St. Justin Martyr
— Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP (@FrAquinasOP) May 4, 2025
Showing posts with label Christian initiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christian initiation. Show all posts
Sunday, May 04, 2025
What About Chrismation?
Thursday, August 31, 2023
1 John 5
Bearing witness to Christ, in word and in deed, is the mission of each one of the baptized.
— Amigo de Frodo (@bpdflores) August 31, 2023
The martyrs give testimony to this.
“So there are three that testify,
the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are of one accord.”
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Being Baptized into Christ
Remembering and Sharing Our Baptism | The Church gives us these Sunday reminders after Holy Pascha to help us remember our baptism. We are called to remember “Whom We have Put On” on that transformative day that we became a Christian. https://t.co/8ESiXPjHlr pic.twitter.com/2GeBYVQzAb
— Pravmir.com (@Pravmir_English) May 29, 2021
Friday, September 25, 2020
No Reform to Latin Christian Initiation in Sight
Bishop Barron still emphasizing Baptism by water alone as Christian initiation. When will Latins reform their rite of Christian initiation so that all are initiated with Baptism, the Gift of the Holy Spirt, and maybe First Holy Communion as well?
Friends, Baptism is objective: the visible sign of invisible incorporation into the Mystical Body of Jesus. Every baptized person is, objectively speaking, a child of God, divinized, and destined to be a great saint.
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) September 25, 2020
Watch the video on YouTube: https://t.co/WTRvVUL2nX
Sunday, May 17, 2020
The Sacraments of Initiation and the Eucharist
A point linked to participatio actuosa, but I decided to put this as a separate post.
Fr. Robert Skeris writes:
If they were to return to the usage of scripture, baptism by water AND the Holy Spirit, with individual sacraments being returned as parts of the same ceremony as the norm, there could be some wiggle room for reinterpreting baptism in Latin documents in this way. But it would be better to admit that a mistake was made in their sacramental theology.
Fr. Robert Skeris writes:
Membership in the Church, which is brought about by valid baptism, makes one a part of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Priest, to whose priesthood one is interiorly conformed1 through the baptismal character.This is a point made by Sacrosanctum Concilium and repeated by many who use that document as a reference for explaining participatio actuosa.
In comparison with the high priesthood of Christ Himself, this priesthood of the baptized is analogous, by an analogy of proper proportionality.2 And since confirmation is related to baptism as growth is related to birth, it is clear that the so-called universal priesthood of all believers is ontologically based upon baptism, and not upon the sacrament of confirmation.3 As St. Jerome aptly phrased it, "Sacerdotium laici, id est baptisma."4
Mother Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to that fully conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations which is demanded by the very nature of the liturgy. Such participation by the Christian people as "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a redeemed people (1 Pet. 2:9; cf. 2:4-5), is their right and duty by reason of their baptism.It should be baptism and the gift of the Holy Spirit, whether by imposition of the hands or by the anointing by oil, that together lead to the third sacrament of initiation, the Eucharist. But given the historic separation of the first two sacraments of initiation by the Latins, they are stuck claiming that it is baptism alone.
If they were to return to the usage of scripture, baptism by water AND the Holy Spirit, with individual sacraments being returned as parts of the same ceremony as the norm, there could be some wiggle room for reinterpreting baptism in Latin documents in this way. But it would be better to admit that a mistake was made in their sacramental theology.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Friday, November 23, 2018
More Potential Pastoral Problems?
In connection with this post.
If the sacraments of initiation are limited to those infants whose parents are ready and willing to bear the responsibility of educating them, then will the children of those who have not been initiated be left out? Will their parents be judged by their brethren as being inadequate Christians? In order to avoid this problem, should the sacraments of initiation therefore be given to all infants, even if the parents are less than able to provide a proper formation for their children? Or should they be delayed for all children until they attain the age of reason, or after that point, when they are able to choose the faith and profess it? The question of "maturity" or intentionality in faith and how the sacraments of initiation are related to it is perhaps one that needs to be asked not only by those in the patriarchate of Rome but by the members of the other patriarchates as well.
If the sacraments of initiation are limited to those infants whose parents are ready and willing to bear the responsibility of educating them, then will the children of those who have not been initiated be left out? Will their parents be judged by their brethren as being inadequate Christians? In order to avoid this problem, should the sacraments of initiation therefore be given to all infants, even if the parents are less than able to provide a proper formation for their children? Or should they be delayed for all children until they attain the age of reason, or after that point, when they are able to choose the faith and profess it? The question of "maturity" or intentionality in faith and how the sacraments of initiation are related to it is perhaps one that needs to be asked not only by those in the patriarchate of Rome but by the members of the other patriarchates as well.
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