Common Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Baptism - National ...

The following rite of baptism was placed in
the ritual of Pope Paul V (1614) and
formed by taking the adult rite of baptism
and abbreviating it for use with an infant.
This rite became the most widely used one
for infant baptism between 1614 and the
reforms introduced by Pope Paul VI in
1969. Adult baptism as a frequent practice
did not re-emerge in the Roman Rite until
the promulgation of the Rite of Christian
Initiation of Adults (1972).
The following rite was promulgated in
1969 and was meant to highlight those
elements of reform directed by the Second
Vatican Council in SC 68 and 69. Its use is
separate from that of the rite for baptism of
adults; the two may never be interchanged.
The usual place for the celebration of
infant baptism is the Sunday Mass of the
community into which the child is baptized
and which parents live.
I Entrance Rites
A. Interrogatories at the door of the
Church of parents and godparents
B. Minor exorcism
C. Exsufflation and the signing of the
baptizand‘s forehead
I Entrance Rites
A. Greeting at the door of the Church
B. Interrogatories of parents and
godparents
C. Signing of the forehead of the
infant by parents and godparents
D. The imposition of hands
E. Blessing of baptizand with salt
F. Exorcism
II Rites at Entrance to Baptistry
A. Recitation of the creed by parents
and godparents
B. Exorcism
C. Ephphetha ceremony
D. Renunciation of Satan answered by
godparents
E. Anointing with oil of catechumens
III Rites at the Font
A. Baptismal promises taken
on behalf of the infant
B. Baptism
C. Anointing with chrism
D. Clothing with white garment
II Rites at the font during Sunday Mass
A. Liturgy of the Word
B. Intercessions
C. Litany of the saints
D. Exorcism
E. Anointing with oil
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