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Is What It Does
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Word Up
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The most familiar symbol of Baptism.
What is water?
100
To pass on to their child their beliefs and to make them a part of the Christian community.
What is why parents get their child baptized.
100
In the old days, parents chose these kinds of names for their child's baptismal name.
What is a saint's name?
100
The place that holds the baptismal water.
What is the font?
100
In Mark chapter 1, Jesus asked him to baptize him.
Who is John the Baptist?
200
Parents and God parents do this to symbolize Jesus's humanity. It also means that Jesus will be a part of the child's life forever.
What is tracing the sign of the cross on the child's forehead.
200
It is a way parents can share traditions in their family and of their faith with their children.
What is tell the stories of our Christian past. (Bible stories, saint stories, family experiences, etc.)
200
Name giving should have this in order to teach tradition and history to the child.
What is meaning?
200
In the "old days" private celebrations were the norm, but now, this is when most baptisms take place.
What is during a regular Sunday Mass.
200
Though Jesus was baptized with water, John said Jesus would baptize with this.
What is the Holy Spirit?
300
This is why a lighted candle is given to the child.
What is remembering that through Baptism, Jesus brings us from the darkness of sin into the light of God's kingdom.
300
Going to Church regularly and praying before meals are a few of the things parents do in order to help their children learn what their expectations are of them as people. It may mean a parent do these things even if they don't feel like it.
What is sacrifice by establishing healthy habits they want their child to develop.
300
Though selecting a saint's name is tradition, you can do this if its meaning comes from a Christian or biblical origin - like Francis or Isaiah.
What is use the name the child already has as their Baptismal name.
300
According to the Catholic church, this is the time in a person's life that they should receive the sacrament of Baptism.
What is at any time during their life - as an infant, a young child, teen or adult.
300
This is where the Ethiopian official was baptized after talking to Phillip?
What is a body of water? River
400
Moses did it to Aaron & his sons. Sammuel did it to David. Mary Magdalene did it to Jesus. The priest does this twice during the Baptism rite.
What is anointing with oil?
400
Rising to feed an infant at night; coping with your child's temperment; putting your child's needs before your own are all examples of this.
What is maturing and growing in your role as a parent.
400
This are promotions, finishing a degree, marriage are examples of why we take on new names.
What is what happens when there is a significant change in one's life?
400
During the Mass, this is when the family tells the Church community that they have come to ask the Church to have their child baptized.
What is at the beginning of the Mass.
400
This is the type of baptism John preached.
What is a baptism of repentance.
500
Whether it is a complete outfit or simply a special white cloth, the garment given at Baptism reminds the family and the newly baptized of this.
What is being clothed in Christ?
500
More important than being closely related to the child is that they are closely related to the Lord.
What are Godparents?
500
This is Baba Michael's and Mama Charlene's Baptismal Names
What are Penhryn & Angela.
500
After the homily is when the Baptism rite takes place. This is what happens at the very end of the Mass before the closing prayer.
What is the distribution of the white garment, candle and certificates to the parents and Godparents.
500
"We were therefore ______with him through baptism into _____ in order that, just as _____ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we ______a new life. *Romans 6:4
What are buried, death, Christ, too may live
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