Coolest Baptism Ever!

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So today my friend’s baby got baptized! It was the coolest baptism ever! First off, Bishop Kurt of the Eparchy of Passaic randomly showed up at their parish. She didn’t know that the baby was going to be baptized by the bishop until she walked through the door and saw him there with the priest! Secondly, my friend is latin and her husband is byzantine. They followed the byzantine tradition of doing ‘everything at once’ (baptism, confirmation, eucharist). Have any of you guys been to really cool/unique baptisms?
 
Every baptism is cool.

Not a fan of the all at once sacraments though.
Harder to catechize children that way.
 
They are compromising by enrolling their son in faith formation at the Latin-Rite parish. The Latin-rite parish has a more cohesive faith formation program. Canon law states that their marriage and their baby’s baptism had to take place at the Byzantine parish since her husband is Byzantine-rite. But it’s not every day that the bishop randomly shows up at your parish so they were a bit stunned, but in a good way.
 
EqualinHim said:
So today my friend’s baby got baptized! It was the coolest baptism ever! First off, Bishop Kurt of the Eparchy of Passaic randomly showed up at their parish. She didn’t know that the baby was going to be baptized by the bishop until she walked through the door and saw him there with the priest! Secondly, my friend is latin and her husband is byzantine. They followed the byzantine tradition of doing ‘everything at once’ (baptism, confirmation, eucharist). Have any of you guys been to really cool/unique baptisms?
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A few years ago, our bishop was able to come for the baptism of two babies, one of whom was the daughter of our pastor. It was a particularly beautiful day. I love that we fully initiate our children into the life of Christ at baptism and nourish them with the body and blood of Christ from their earliest days.
 
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Every baptism is cool.
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I love baptisms. I get excited every time I get to go to one. I just found out that a fellow parishioner is pregnant and one of my first thoughts was, “We get to have another baptism!”
 
Her husband , the baby’s father , is Byzantine , therefore the baby takes the Rite of the Father - so is a Byzantine Catholic.

In the Eastern Catholic Churches the babies are Baptised and Chrismated and Communed at the one Service.
 
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They are compromising by enrolling their son in faith formation at the Latin-Rite parish. The Latin-rite parish has a more cohesive faith formation program. Canon law states that their marriage and their baby’s baptism had to take place at the Byzantine parish since her husband is Byzantine-rite. But it’s not every day that the bishop randomly shows up at your parish so they were a bit stunned, but in a good way.
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CIC and CCEO allows when both are Catholic to choose either sui iuris Church:

CCEO Can. 29 §1. By virtue of baptism, a child who has not yet completed his fourteenth year of age is enrolled in the Church sui iuris of the Catholic father; or the Church sui iuris of the mother if only the mother is Catholic or if both parents by agreement freely request it, with due regard for particular law established by the Apostolic See.
 
Hey, because I was an adult when I came into the church, even though I’m a Latin, it was basically the Byzantine order. So yes, mine.
 
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Canon law states that their marriage and their baby’s baptism had to take place at the Byzantine parish since her husband is Byzantine-rite.
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Hmm… are you sure about that? I don’t recall that stipulation. Now, if you were to say that the marriage had to be celebrated by a priest (so that they would receive the priestly blessing) and that the baby would become a member of his father’s rite (unless the parents stipulated otherwise), then I’d agree with you…
 
An OG that “bang the set” said he was baptized with bullets and proceeded to call me “cuhz” an irregular amount of times.
 
Kei said:
Excuse my ignorance, but how does a baby receive the Eucharist?
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They are given a few drops of the Precious Blood from a spoon. In some traditions, the priest dips his finger into the chalice, then puts his finger in the baby’s mouth.
 
Ah, that makes much more sense. I for some reason was thinking automatically that it was under the accident of bread and not wine.
 
Yes! Infants may receive all three Sacraments of Initiation at once. It is always that way in the Eastern Catholic Churches and sometimes done in the Latin Rite Church.
 
Yes as is right and proper in the Byzantine rite… and was practiced in the Latin West too for the first thousand years or so… “let the little children come to me and do not hinder them…”
 
Wow. Thanks for the information. Many years ago a friend basically said the same in a casual way (the bride follows the husband’s religion), but I just kept a wondering, as I didn’t think at the time to ask further.:woman_facepalming:t2: :woman_shrugging:t2:
 
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