To: NYer
He then went to each infant and poured an excessive amount of water over their heads (they were in their mothers arms at this point, naked but wrapped in a white towel)...He then massaged the water into their heads and then kissed the infants individually. Would it be overly paranoid of me to suggest that parents keep their children away from this priest. The very description of how he "baptized" these infants gives me the willies.
Somebody needs to mail this video to Rome pronto! I'm sick to death of this nonsense. We faithful Catholics need to form our own "Voice of the Faithful" -- this time the name will actually mean what it says.
To: GipperGal
These people have truly lost their minds.
I know...let's do what is pleasing to us rather than what is pleasing to God.
Another Sodom and Gomorrah await his calling.
To: GipperGal
At that point, individually, each one of the naked infants backsides was dipped into the water three times, while Fr. Marcoux called out in sequence to each dip of the backside, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Not having seen the video, I can't say for sure, but that doesn't seem like a valid baptism to me.
I find these people who deliberately seem to be making up their own liturgy to be very scary people.
The requisite and sole valid form of baptism is: "I baptize thee (or This person is baptized) in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost(Spirit)."
--snip--
"In administering this sacrament it is absolutely necessary to use the word "baptize" or its equivalent (Alex. VIII, Prop. damn., xxvii), otherwise the ceremony is invalid."
Now it is true that if the Sacrament is unintentionally administered incorrectly, through ignorance, that it is still valid if the intentions are correct.
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05/31/2005 7:04:44 PM PDT by
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