Baptism
Parishioners wishing to have a child baptized should:
Be registered in the parish
Should contact the pastor, Father Bryan as early as 3 months prior to child's birth
Contact the pastor and propose a date for the baptism
Arrange a date to meet with a member of the clergy for preparation
Have the sponsor affirmation form filled out by the sponsor (see link above)
Bring the completed sponsor affirmation form to preparation meeting
Fill out the baptism application with a member of the clergy (get at parish office)
Receive baptism information
Baptism Application,
Pick up at Parish Office
“Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua),4 and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: “Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1213).
“Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called.50 The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism. The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1250).