Baptismal sermon

AI: Dear Parents and Godfathers! Today, you desire that this child be baptized. From today, it will belong not only you. But also to God and to the community of the church. It becomes to God’s child.

The child  will receive an example from your parents. Will it be good or bad?KE: In today’s Gospel we have heard the words: “This is my beloved Son, in which I have the affection” (Mt 3.17)DI: These words were from heaven during the baptism of Jesus Christ, who was baptized by John the Baptist. With the image of baptism, we meet already in the Old Testament. He’s located in the Book of Genesis. We meet there with the sign Noemi. Noah marks peace or brings joy. Noah was a very righteous and Godly man and tried to live according to God’s will. During Noemi, many of the people were departing from God and God; therefore, they decided to flood the world. However, God saved the Noe ma through the ark in which he lived during the flood. The church sees for a picture of salvation in Noah’s bead through baptism. In the bead, only a few, eight people were saved through water. At the end of the flood, Noah deleted the pigeon. The pigeon that exclaimed Noah returns with a fresh olive returned to the beak, which means that the ground is repopulated. When Jesus ascends after his baptism from the water to him, the Holy Spirit descends in the form of a dove and remains with him. Jesus Christ voluntarily received the baptism, which was determined by a sinner, to fulfill the words: “All that is fair” (Mt 3.15) Jesus ‘ proceedings is a visible manifestation of the renown. He also tells us the apostle Paul in the letter to Filipinos by the words:

“He, although he has a divine nature, did not add his equality with God, but he humbled himself, took the nature of the servant, became similar to the people; And according to the external revelation was considered a man. “ (FLP 2.6-7) Baptism is the gateway to new life and the Kingdom. It is the first sacraments of the New Testament. Christ had appointed him for everyone to have eternal life and, together with from the Gospel, entrust him to the church, when the apostle identified the mission by saying, “go and teach all the peoples and Baptiste them for the father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” Baptism is mainly a celebration of faith, which we people enlightened by the grace of the Holy Spirit; we answer the Gospel of Christ. By the fact that the baptism is by itself, we are in the church. Also, we are built into God’s shelter in the Holy Spirit into the Kingdom of the Holy People’s priesthood. Baptism is the sacramental bond of unity among all that he has marked us. After the sacrament of baptism, we strive to make the gift of faith in this child 

PAR: How do we in the child spread the gift of faith? For a child to have the gift of faith, you need Godly parents. For a short while, this child will be baptized and will be called the child of God, but before this act follows, of faith and the reject of the evil spirit. You baptize parents will now recognize the principle on which basis we are to baptize your child. A few years after they grow up and take the sacrament of confirmation, they will strive alone. Every now, one of you takes a somber role because you will be the first example for this child. You have to give a good example. According to your case and practicing faith, you will also grow the trust, of your child. If you provide a good example, even a child will be according to you to live an exemplary life. If you see that you live a life according to the belief that you live in a matrimonial love, the sincerity that you pray together, you go to the church, and you approach the Catholic, do not worry, surely it will be an encouragement for him and become a good man and a good Christian who will not Ashamed to confess your faith in God and will spread it from people. 

MY: about how we can issue an example for your child from the beginning of your Christian education shows us the life story of St. Augustine. His mother was a Christian who was relatively young, married to a pagan man. The whole family lived in a pagan environment. Since they had tried to instill the Christian upbringing. Baptized them because they took care of the environment and the father. She thought that when the children were to grow themselves, they decide, and the father would get better. Even though it tried from all the forces-the influence of the father and the pagan environment was large. The father turned the year before the end of life. According to the example, the wife became a Christian, also he was baptized. Other children did it later. Well, for Augustine as if it was too late. The environment of the ancient pagan estates has been completely absorbed. He walked through and tried all the misery of this environment. Lies, street battles, the theft were on the daily order. And if they were already familiar with the drugs, they would not have been fired. Then he dies from the house against the will of the mother, to study the speech. It was all about trying to instill the environment. His mother does not lose hope. The full eighteen years have been praying for him and bring victims.! Until this initial seed is sowed to him, he was not rebuked by his big teacher and speaker of St. Ambrose. And so just before the mother’s death, Augustine turned and baptized. And this man, after his death, receives the Holy Patriot. And today, he is an insurmountable teacher. Sounds like a fairy tale. Finally, everything went well. This, however, was no fairy tale, but one pretty specific life story. And it seems that life has not changed since antiquity. From the example below, we see how important it is to give an example to your child. Try to also parents, the godfathers of this example.

ADE: To be able to give an excellent example to this child, we will plead God for help in this prayer: Lord Jesus Christ we surrender to thy hand this child, who, for love, give you a parent because they desire to be baptized in Jesus Christ. Give this child a belief that when it grows, it has proved to spread this belief to the end of his life. Also, help parents in their role to issue a good example for this child. 

 Amen.