In Any Case - These Were Not Baptisms.

Hundreds of Catholic baptisms may be invalidated over incorrect 'formula'.

Leonardo Blair   22 February 2022 

(Photo: Unsplash/Josh Applegate)Nearly two years before thousands of Catholics learned earlier this month that their baptisms were invalidated because their priest said the wrong word during baptisms, hundreds of Catholics baptized at the St. Anastasia Roman Catholic Church in Michigan learned their baptisms were also deemed invalid.

The Rev. Andres Arango, the former priest of St. Gregory Catholic Church in Phoenix, Arizona, resigned after a 20-year career earlier this month after church officials concluded that he had been using the phrase "We baptize" instead of the Vatican approved "I baptize" for baptisms.

Blogger: the Greek for baptism is baptizo and denotes total immersion. The Greek for sprinkle is rhantizo and denotes sprinkling.

Jesus was baptised and not rhantised. We 'follow Jesus through the waters'.

Nothing wrong with a christening (rhantizo) as a welcome to the Church until the point when you claim that it is the same as a baptism which it manifestly is not.

Furthermore, nowhere in Christian teaching can you 'stand in for someone else' as occurs in a number of denominations.

Both First Communions and Confirmations, many years later, do not obviate the need for a proper baptism. 

Dedication ceremonies in many evangelical churches form a better way. You cannot 'assume' that a child will embrace Jesus, s/he has a free choice. 

This Blogger was 'christened' as a baby but rapidly undertook to be baptised after I had acknowledged The Christ as my personal Saviour.