Is baptism a vow?

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Is baptism, a vow? Or an oath for that matter? Are all sacraments vows? I don’t understand this, show me the answers through the Catechism and canon law hopefully. Thanks.
 
Ilovejesus1234 said:
Is baptism, a vow? Or an oath for that matter? Are all sacraments vows? I don’t understand this, show me the answers through the Catechism and canon law hopefully. Thanks.
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Do you have a Catechism? 🙂
It’s not clear to me if you are asking us to do the research for you?

You could google “Catholic catechism baptism” 👍

(Here is a link where you can go read on it. Good luck)

vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a1.htm
 
Catholic Encyclopedia: Baptismal Vows
The name popularly given to the renunciations required of an adult candidate for baptism just before the sacrament is conferred. In the case of infant baptism, they are made in the name of the child by the sponsors. It is obvious that these promises have not the theological import of vows properly so called. According to the Roman Ritual, at present in use, three questions are to be addressed to the person to be baptized, as follows: “Dost thou renounce Satan? and all his works? and all his pomps?” To each of these interrogation the person, or the sponsor in his name, replies: “I do renounce”. The practice of demanding and making this formal renunciation seems to go back to the very beginnings of organized Christian worship. Tertullian among the Latins and St. Basil among the Greeks are at one in reckoning it as a usage which, although not explicitly warranted in the Scriptures, is nevertheless consecrated by a venerable tradition. St. Basil says this tradition ascends from the Apostles. Tertullian, in his “De Coronâ”, appears to hint at a twofold renunciation as common in his time, one which was made at the moment of baptism and another made sometime before, and publicly in the church, in the presence of the bishop. The form of this renunciation a found in the Apostolic Constitutions (VIII, 4) has a quaint interest. It is as follows: “Let therefore the candidate for baptism declare thus in his renunciation: ‘I renounce Satan and his works and his pomps and his worship and his angels and his inventions and all things that are under him’. And after his renunciation let him in his consociation say: ‘And I associate myself to Christ and believe and am baptized into one unbegotten being’”, etc.
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Its pretty sad when someone comes here and asks a question and they are told go do your own research.
 
eightydeuce82 said:
Its pretty sad when someone comes here and asks a question and they are told go do your own research.
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Right. It’s much better that they are given links to the official Church documents which answer their questions. Which… as it turns out… is what happened here… right? 😉

I mean, after all, that’s what the OP asked for, right – citations to the catechism, no?

(Of course, ilovejesus1234, if you have any questions after you’ve read through what the catechism says, please ask here!)
 
Gorgias said:
Right. It’s much better that they are given links to the official Church documents which answer their questions. Which… as it turns out… is what happened here… right? 😉

I mean, after all, that’s what the OP asked for, right – citations to the catechism, no?

(Of course, ilovejesus1234, if you have any questions after you’ve read through what the catechism says, please ask here!)
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Yup but all the comments of do your own research appeared a little off-putting
 
eightydeuce82 said:
Yup but all the comments of do your own research appeared a little off-putting
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Yup but I’m betting they were written because the line “show me answers in the catechism” may have appeared a little off-putting. 😉
 
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