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Baptism
Baptism is full initiation by water and the Holy Spirit into Christ's Body, the Church. God establishes an indissoluble bond with each of us in baptism when we are made sharers in the new life of the Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sins. Each candidate for baptism in the Episcopal Church is to be sponsored by one or more baptized persons.
Sponsors (godparents) speak on behalf of candidates for baptism who are infants or younger children and cannot speak for themselves at the Presentation and Examination of the Candidates. During the baptismal rite the members of the congregation promise to do all they can to support the candidates for baptism in their life in Christ. We all join in by renewing the baptismal covenant. Individuals are baptized "in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The newly baptized is "sealed by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and marked as Christ's own for ever." When all baptisms have been completed, the presider and congregation welcome the newly baptized.
Please contact Rev. Andrew Butler, for further information at andrewb@stmargarets.org, or 760-346-2697, ext. 106.
Sponsors (godparents) speak on behalf of candidates for baptism who are infants or younger children and cannot speak for themselves at the Presentation and Examination of the Candidates. During the baptismal rite the members of the congregation promise to do all they can to support the candidates for baptism in their life in Christ. We all join in by renewing the baptismal covenant. Individuals are baptized "in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The newly baptized is "sealed by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and marked as Christ's own for ever." When all baptisms have been completed, the presider and congregation welcome the newly baptized.
Please contact Rev. Andrew Butler, for further information at andrewb@stmargarets.org, or 760-346-2697, ext. 106.