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Leah's avatar

I appreciated this and wanted to say I thought it very charitable of you to include Lutheran teaching on Holy Baptism. :) We rejoice in its saving power by God’s gracious promise.

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Nathaniel Richards's avatar

God is good to give grace even to the little ones.

Especially as a Catholic living in the buckle of the Bible Belt, it is saddening to see the hostility against infant baptism from our separated brethren. Before I became Catholic I grew up in a non-Trinitarian credobaptist faith that strongly opposed infant baptism.

But it’s like you said, if baptism does something, should we not help our children as soon as possible? I want my children to be able to get all the initiatory Sacraments ASAP! In the Ordinariate where I’m at currently, my kids can be confessed, confirmed, and communed by age seven. I’m Western so that’ll have to do…but I totally sympathize/understand why the East baptizes the child and then immediately chrismates!

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