One Year Timeframe for Infant Baptisms?

[Br.Rich_SFO]

no!! But if we knew then that she was going to flake out and run up huge debt, leave her husband, with the huge debt, for another man and of course leave the Church, we would have picked someone else. Maybe the bedrest and Lenten timetable was God’s way of telling us to RUN!!

God does sometimes give us signs!!

 

[adrift]

If your daughter is affected by this (unreasonable delay of Baptism) then as a member of the parish/diocese it would be her place to contact the pastor or Bishop.

I wish I would had known this at the time. She ended up taking them to different parishes to be baptized. The closest was seventy miles from her parish and a different diocese. Please put me in your prayers as I prepare to write this bishop.

 

[Corki]

Here’s a simple question for anybody on this thread. Since we know that, in extraordinary circumstances, any person can baptize, if your own child were not baptized and in imminent danger of death, would you baptize the child yourself, or leave the child unbaptized and just trust in God’s mercy?

I would absolutely Baptize my baby!

My own husband was born prematurely in a third world country. He was in fragile health. Fortunately he was born in a Catholic hospital. His mother says he was “Baptized” about a dozen times by nurses, etc. Everyone wanted to make sure that baby went to heaven.

 

[Andreas_Hofer]

Here’s a simple question for anybody on this thread. Since we know that, in extraordinary circumstances, any person can baptize, if your own child were not baptized and in imminent danger of death, would you baptize the child yourself, or leave the child unbaptized and just trust in God’s mercy?

Baptize - no question.

Then your child would have been given consideration for this.

Same for the other circumstances posted here. God knows the intent in our hearts and makes allowances.

Andy

Sometimes that isn’t so obvious, witness infant crib deaths. It would seem their lives are always precarious at an early age.

Andy

You mean - we sure hope God makes allowances. But your point about infants living precarious lives is precisely why the Church requires them to be baptized within the first few weeks. Essentially, the Church slowly came to the position that, in a certain manner of speaking, all infants are in danger of death. That’s how infant baptism became the norm to begin with.