[George W. Bush]

But if you have neither, then pour water on the head thrice in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

Eeek! I was doing fine up to this. ; )

And the solidarity of the West's Reformation with the ancient texts of the East is a rather sweet thing, a wonderful story of sciptural preservation and tranmission. While you in the East preserved the text so faithfully for all, and we in the West translated your text and gave it to the common people to throw off the hideous Roman yoke, Rome was floundering around with Jerome and some dead language. Rome's interest in her own Vaticanus and Sinaiticus was roused only by these dubioius modern versions in the West in the last century.

[kosta50]

Eeek! I was doing fine up to this

Well, that's how the Church did it when baptismal pools were not available.