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Summary
- Every Christian baptism is given “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the baptism services of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers and Hapgood’s 1906 Orthodox service book.
- Short prayers cover the baby or child, the parents, the godparents, an adult preparing for baptism, the meal afterward and the anniversary of a baptism.
- A set of petitions for the prayers of the faithful uses the response “Lord, hear our prayer.”
- Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches baptize infants; Baptists baptize believers by immersion, as the Baptist Faith and Message (2000) states.
- In danger of death, the 1888 Manual of Prayers and the 1928 prayer book allow a lay person to baptize.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Matthew 28:19; Mark 10:14; Acts 8:39; Romans 6:4; Galatians 3:27; 2 Timothy 1:5). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. The Ministration of Holy Baptism, pp. 273–281, including Private Baptism, p. 281. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Lay Baptism, p. 24; The Sacrament of Baptism, pp. 393–410, including “A Prayer for One lately Baptized,” pp. 409–410, and “A Renewal of Baptismal Vows,” p. 410. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Office of Holy Baptism and Holy Chrismation, pp. 281–282. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- Southern Baptist Convention. The Baptist Faith and Message (2000), article VII, “Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.” https://bfm.sbc.net/bfm2000/
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