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Baptism of Christ 7 January 2024

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Ever-living God,
you have given us your only-begotten Word
to take on our nature,
and revealed him to us
at his baptism in the River Jordan,
grant that we, who have been born again of water and the Holy Spirit,
and made your children by adoption and grace,
may daily be renewed by your Holy Spirit,
through Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.

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Who Holds the Child in Baptism?

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Recently in looking for “clip-art” images of baptism (and actually beyond that in online photographs, once the following was spotted) it is noticeable that in nearly every image the one baptising is not holding the child being baptised. I began to wonder if this was something about celibate RC priests lacking in agility to hold a child, or was this in a rubric that I couldn’t find. Do married RC deacons also have someone else holding the child? If so, and there is no rubric, why? Is that simply imitating what they’ve seen RC priests doing?

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