That sounds lovely to me! The baptismal gown really is a tradition not a doctrine, so it really wouldn’t matter if it were red, but when the Church baptizes it does dress candidates in white robes, so it is appropriate, if not absolutely necessary. A few little green leaves won’t negate the intention of having a white baptismal gown, I’m sure.
That’s what I thought but not being Catholic I couldn’t be sure. Thanks so much. I’m so excited about her special day!
The “white garment” is typically given by the church to the parents along with the baptismal candle. It is symbolic, and not a real garment that the child wears. The symbolism is that white stands for purity gained through the washing away of Original Sin.
Actually, white is not really correct when you think about it as it represents that sin has been washed away by the baptism. So the child having white on coming into the baptism is not really correct. That is why a white garment is generally placed over the child after the baptism. I do recognize that the child wearing a white gown is traditional in many places but it is not strictly a correct representation of what is happening. So I suppose I would say color should really not be a problem.
Yes, there is actually a white garment given to the family. It’s usually just a little bib or something, and sometimes it’s placed on the child and sometimes just given to the parents.
You are one very special lady, leschhornmom! Your little roses sound beatiful! Cyber hug comin’ atcha from New York!
I just talked to my cousin and she said it sounds fine. She also told me that with her other two girls the nun that asisted her had her wait until the baptism was done before they dressed her in her gown. I thought that that was a really neat idea. That way it truly does represent being born into christianity.
That’s what they do in my parish. They encourage families to wait until after the baptism to dress the baby in the baptismal gown. So people generally bring the baby dressed in something simple. And my parish doesn’t believe in being stingy with water so a baby would need something dry to put on anyways.
I thought the priest just dips his hand in the Holy water and baptises them. How do they get wet? Does your parish but the beby in a faunt or something? Don’t all Catholic churches have the same guidelines?
Sprinkling over the head is done when immersion is unavailable, depending on the available facilities. I was baptized as an infant by full immersion of the (nakie) body and sprinkling of over the head. They didn’t dunk my head under, My sister was baptised teh same way, but myfollowing two sibs were sprinkled upon the head at the same parish. The Baptismal font we were Baptized in was big enough for a baby but an adult would need to hold their head head over teh font and be sprinkled. All three of my babies were Bapt. by sprinkling over a font. The civillian parish in my town has a full immersion font, I think they go into teh water and are sprinkled over the head (such as in teh movie, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” where they use a baby pool. It is almost like a standing Baptismal font attched to a pool and there is a fountain that goes over a little waterfall. I have been to Catholic parishes which have a baptismal font that looks almost like a sauna, with steps that they walk into and I assume that they have the option of dunking the head under water.