Can the renewal of baptismal promises regularly replace the Creed at Mass

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Just had an e-mail from a friend at my parish, apparently this morning my Pastor announced that from next Sunday, every time the Cree=d occurs at Mass we will be replacing it with the renewal of baptismal promises. Is this valid?
 
You can do it when there IS a Baptism taking place at a particular Mass.
 
Mark1970 said:
Just had an e-mail from a friend at my parish, apparently this morning my Pastor announced that from next Sunday, every time the Cree=d occurs at Mass we will be replacing it with the renewal of baptismal promises. Is this valid?
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It is something that can be done “from time to time” or “on occasion”

It is NOT meant to be done at every Mass.

So what you described is NOT licit. It is not supposed to be done that way.

It’s also a little more complicated than simply replacing the Creed.

I don’t recall the exact details from memory (because I don’t do it) it’s about having the Rite of Sprinkling with Holy Water and (possibly) having a renewal of Baptismal promises as one of the options within that. Still, that happens as a form of the Penitential Rite.

What the priest is proposing to do is certainly wrong.
 
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I don’t recall the exact details from memory (because I don’t do it) it’s about having the Rite of Sprinkling with Holy Water and (possibly) having a renewal of Baptismal promises as one of the options within that.
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The Rite for the Blessing and Sprinkling of Water (Appendix II of the Roman Missal) does not include the renewal of baptismal promises, so this is no reason to omit the Creed. The Creed can be omitted for a lot of reasons. I have tried to list all of them below. One reason is the baptism of a child in the Mass. The introduction to the Rite of Baptism for Children has a section “TIME AND PLACE FOR BAPTISM OF CHILDREN” from n. 8 to n. 14. This includes:
“9. To bring out the paschal character of baptism, it is recommended that the sacrament be celebrated during the Easter Vigil or on Sunday, when the Church commemorates the Lord’s resurrection. On Sunday, baptism may be celebrated even during Mass, so that the entire community may be present and the relationship between baptism and eucharist may be clearly seen; but this should not be done too often. …” (The Rites Volume One, Liturgical Press, 1990, ISBN: 0-8146-6015-0).
 
Reasons for omitting the Creed when it would normally happen:
The Creed is optional when there are the Scrutinies, (prayers for the elect who are to be baptised a few weeks later.) From the book Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults: “… then, if required, the profession of faith is said. But for pastoral reasons these general intercessions and the profession of faith may be omitted.” (RCIA, n. 143, 157, 164 edition for Australia and England, n. 156, 170, 177 in the edition for the USA.).
The usual time for the Scrutinies is the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent. However, from the RCIA book with the Australian number “133. … When, because of unusual circumstances and pastoral needs, the period of purification and enlightenment takes place outside Lent, the scrutinies are celebrated on Sundays or even on weekdays, with the usual intervals between celebrations. They are not celebrated on solemnities of the liturgical year” (USA RCIA, n. 146).
At the Easter Vigil there is a renewal of baptismal promises, instead of the Creed.
For Easter Sunday, the 2010 Roman Missal has: “In Australia, England and Wales, and in Scotland: The Creed is said. However, in Easter Sunday Masses which are celebrated with a congregation, the rite of the renewal of baptismal promises may take place after the homily, according to the text used at the Easter Vigil (p. 418). In that case the Creed is omitted.”
If there is a baptism at Mass, from the Rite of Baptism for Children “29. … 2 … c. The Creed is not said, since the profession of faith by the entire community before baptism takes its place.” (The Rites Volume One, Liturgical Press, 1990, ISBN: 0-8146-6015-0, page 374).
And if there is a confirmation at Mass, from the Rite of Confirmation “31. … a) the profession of faith is omitted, since it has already been made;” (The Rites Volume One, Liturgical Press, 1990, ISBN: 0-8146-6015-0, page 492).
If there is an ordination of a deacon, priest or bishop in the Mass, from the rite of “Ordination of Deacons, Priests and Bishops”, n. “The profession of faith is not said, nor are the general intecessions.” (The Rites Volume Two, Liturgical Press, 1991, ISBN: 0-8146-6037-1, pages 28, 39, 66).
If there is a consecration to a life of virginity in the Mass: “12. … b) the profession of faith is not said, even if prescribed by the rubrics of the day”. (The Rites Volume Two, Liturgical Press, 1991, ISBN: 0-8146-6037-1, page 161, 177).
 
Reasons for omitting Creed continued:
If there is a rite of religious profession in the Mass, for a temporary profession by a man: “22 … b) the profession of faith may be omitted, even if prescribed by the rubrics of the day.” (The Rites Volume Two, Liturgical Press, 1991, ISBN: 0-8146-6037-1, page 213).
The same for a perpetual profession by a man, n. 52(b), page 221.
The same if a man renews his vows, n. 83(b), page 233.
The same for a women, temporary profession, 25(b), page 252.
The same for a women, perpetual profession, 57(b), page 258.
The same for a women, renewal of vows, 90(b), page 272.
If there is a blessing of an abbot “15. The profession of faith is not said in this Mass, and the general intercessions are omitted.” (The Rites Volume Two, Liturgical Press, 1991, ISBN: 0-8146-6037-1, page 304.
The same for the blessing of an abbess, n. 10, page 314.
 
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