Appropiate Liturgical pratice

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The Priest had everyone come and renew their baptismal promises by blessing themselves from a bowl of blessed water. Is this appropiate liturgical pratice? The priest acting as Christ confers baptism that is why I think that this bowl pratice sends the wrong message about the renewing waters of baptism which comes from Christ. Can anyone shed any light on this?
 
At different times of the year, in place of the penitential rite, there will be a renewal of baptismal promises. Usually it is a sprinkling rite whereby prayers are recited and the priest will walk along the aisles of the church and sprinkle the congregation. At all Catholic churches, we have holy water fonts, and we mark ourselves with the sign of the cross. Each way is a reminder of our own baptism. Perhaps your priest is infirmed, or perhaps it was his own way of demonstating the wonderful renewal of our baptismal promises. We make them so nonchalantly at times, that we fail to realize that attached to the promises are really gestures of our committment to keep the commandments. It is so automatic that we fail to live up to it. I don’t think it was a real problem in doing it this way.
 
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The usual dispensors of the sacrament of Baptism is a priest or a deacon but anyone can baptize in case of emergency, but using water and the trinitarian formula. I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. While pouring water over the head of the one to be baptized.
 
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The Priest had everyone come and renew their baptismal promises by blessing themselves from a bowl of blessed water. Is this appropiate liturgical pratice? The priest acting as Christ confers baptism that is why I think that this bowl pratice sends the wrong message about the renewing waters of baptism which comes from Christ. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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Anytime we bless ourselves with holy water we are reminding ourselves of our baptism – that’s the whole purpose of the practice. What the priest did is fully appropriate.

Deacon Ed
 
Deacon Ed is right, but if you were left confused, the priest did not do a good job of explaining what was going on, and why, and how it differs from baptism, and relating it to the theology of baptism.
 
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