More than one baptism?

[Stormy]

I can not find any information about this on the Internet. I live in the ST. Louis area. The other day on TV I caught the last few moments of a talk with a Catholic priest. The subject was baptism. I was hearing something to the point that baptisms would be repeated as a further dedication and assertion of our continued devotion to Christ. The Priest was excited about this new form of worship that would be added to the Church.

Please tell me that I was dreaming and should go back to sleep.

Or have you heard anything on this subject?

 

[ZooMom]

In the words of the Creed...

We believe in ONE Baptism for the forgiveness of sins.


I haven't heard anything different or understand what these 'other' baptisms might convey.

 

[Phoebe]

Does the RCC have a website?

 

[isshinwhat]

The Vatican does, but the Catholic Church doesn't work quite like that. The Vatican's website is:

www.vatican.va

God Bless,

Neal

 

[sklippstein]

I haven't heard anything about repeated baptism. Are u sure it was a catholic priest? Could he have been referring to a "spiritual baptism"?

 

[Avila]

Um, was he perhaps talking about when the priest goes up the aisle with an aspergillus (or oftentimes fir branches in Advent) and sprinkling the congregation with holy water to remind us of our baptismal promises? Or maybe something about the usage of holy water in general? I could see that if you came into a conversation like that in the middle, you might get very confused. However, there is only ONE baptism for the remission of sins, so if it isn't what I just said, I am not quite sure what this guy was talking about (new devotion, etc., etc. etc.). HTH!!

BTW, an aspergillus is the little wand the priest uses to sprinkle holy water over the congregation - it typically occurs near the beginning, after the "Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy; Lord have mercy" or other penitential rite is done. It reminds us of our constant call to be holy through penitence for our sins.

 

[swalker]

There is such a thing as conditional baptism, in which a person is unsure if his/her baptism was valid, or even is unsure whether or not he/she has been baptized (or in the case that no one knows if the person was baptized in infancy.) In this case, the priest can confer a conditional baptism to make sure the person is baptized. (After acceptance of Jesus Christ as savior, of course.)

 

[dignitized]

There uis one baptism for the forgivness of sins, water baptism.However, there is also another baptism mentioned in the scriptures - the Baptism of the Holsy Spirit - baptism of FIRE.