Invalid Baptism?
The recent decision that more than a quarter of a century of a priest’s baptisms are invalid is not just legalism gone egregious, it can be challenged as mistaken.
The recent decision that more than a quarter of a century of a priest’s baptisms are invalid is not just legalism gone egregious, it can be challenged as mistaken.
Baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus isn’t what you think it is and doesn’t effect what you think it effects.
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Eternal Father,
you have given us your only-begotten Son
to take our nature upon him,
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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Baptism “in the Name of” is a much more profound reality than we usually think. We misread what the Bible and the Early Church did by looking at those words with the lenses of what we do now, 2 millennia later.
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Jesus has some sort of life event that means he leaves Galilee in the North and comes to join John the Baptist’s movement.
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The question I received from someone was: why do Anglicans absolve the congregation with “you” language …God have mercy on you, pardon you…[A New Zealand Prayer Book page 408] and in the Roman Catholic Mass, at that point it is “us” language: May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring
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The following collect may draw from shared traditions (see commentary). It is my reworking of a collect by Cranmer for Christmas, and I am suggest it for the First Sunday in Ordinary Time (January 13), celebrating Christ’s baptism for my Book of Prayers in Common. Let us pray (in silence) [that we will be faithful