Baptism

Baptisms are administered on Sunday afternoons at 1:15.

Please contact the parish office to make an appointment with Monsignor Rossi.

Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit, and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: “Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word.” (CCC-1213)

Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, the person baptized is configured to Christ.  Baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark, even if sin prevents Baptism from bearing the fruits of salvation.  Given once for all, Baptism cannot be repeated.  (CCC-1272)

Reconciliation

Confession times as listed under Mass Schedule, or by appointment.

In the sacrament of penance the faithful who confess their sins to a lawful minister, are sorry for those sins and have a purpose of amendment, receive from God, through the absolution given by that minister, forgiveness of sins they have committed after baptism, and at the same time they are reconciled with the Church, which by sinning they wounded. (CCC-959)

In order that the faithful may receive the saving remedy of the sacrament of penance, they must be so disposed that, repudiating the sins they have committed and having the purpose of amending their lives, they turn back to God. (CCC-987)

“The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.”  (CCC-1601)

“From a valid marriage arises a bond between the spouses which by its very nature is perpetual and exclusive; furthermore, in a Christian marriage the spouses are strengthened and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and the dignity of their state by a special sacrament.”  (CCC-1638)

The consent by which the spouses mutually give and receive one another is sealed by God himself.  From their covenant arises “an institution, confirmed by the divine law,  . . . even in the eyes of society.”  The covenant between the spouses is integrated into God’s covenant with man: “Authentic married love is caught up into divine love.”  (CCC-1639)

“By reason of their state in life and of their order, [Christian spouses] have their own special gifts in the People of God.”  This grace proper to the sacrament of Matrimony is intended to perfect the couple’s love and to strengthen their indissoluble unity.  By this grace they “help one another to attain holiness in their married life and in welcoming and educating their children.”  (CCC-1641)