• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Do Catholics only sprinkle?

Status
Not open for further replies.

Wolseley

Beaucoup-Diên-Cai-Dāu
Feb 5, 2002
21,955
6,636
64
By the shores of Gitchee-Goomee
✟363,578.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
WesleyJohn said:
Could someone offer pics and/or description of the mechanics of baptism by infusion or aspersion?

Thanks!

WJ

Infusion can work a couple ways; the water can be poured from cupped hands, from a seashell, or even from a pitcher. Aspersion is accomplished by sprinkling water on the candidate by means of an instrument called an aspergillum, which is a small hollow receptacle with holes drilled into it, sort of like a big salt shaker with a handle, or by means of a small hyssop branch, or even by means of shaking water from the tips of the fingers.

Aspersion is usually is not done unless water is very scarce, such as a desert country; or unless the candidate is in some extreme set of circumstances, such as burn victim confined to a bed, who is in danger of dying, and who cannot be exposed to too much water due to his injuries, for example.
 
Upvote 0
Status
Not open for further replies.