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Baptism

Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. (John 3:5)

The sacrament of baptism ushers us into the divine life, cleanses us from sin, and initiates us as members of the Christian community. It is the foundation for the sacramental life.

At baptism, the presider prays over the water:
Father, look now with love upon your Church, and unseal for her the fountain of baptism. By the power of the Holy Spirit give to this water the grace of your Son, so that in the sacrament of baptism all those whom you have created in your likeness may be cleansed from sin and rise to a new birth of innocence by water and the Holy Spirit. (Christian Initiation of Adults, #222A)

Kuwekwa huru kutoka katika Dhambi

Baptism frees us from the bondage of original and actual sin. Water is poured in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Today, the sacrament of baptism is often performed on infants, shortly after birth. Adult baptisms take place at the Easter Vigil through the restored Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. Adults or children who have been baptized in a valid Christian church are not baptized again in the Catholic church. As we say in the Nicene Creed, “I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins…”

The Catechism teaches:
"The fruit of Baptism, or baptismal grace, is a rich reality that includes forgiveness of original sin and all personal sins, birth into the new life by which man becomes an adoptive son of the Father, a member of Christ and a temple of the Holy Spirit. By this very fact the person baptized is incorporated into the Church, the Body of Christ, and made a sharer in the priesthood of Christ" (CCC 1279).

Baptismal Symbols

Maji - Maji ya ubatizo yanakumbuka ubatizo wa Yesu mwenyewe na Yohana Mbatizaji katika mto Yordani. Maji ni ishara ya utakaso na kufanywa upya tunapoanza maisha mapya katika Kristo. Tunasafishwa na dhambi. Mafuta - Wakati wa ubatizo tunatiwa mafuta katika maisha ya Kristo kama "kuhani, nabii na mfalme." Msalaba unafuatiliwa kwenye paji la uso la mtahiniwa kama ukumbusho kwamba sisi ni warithi wa Ufalme wa Mungu. Mwanga - Mshumaa wa ubatizo unawashwa kutoka kwa mshumaa wa Pasaka au wa Pasaka ambao unasimama kanisani kama ishara ya nuru ya Kristo ulimwenguni. Wakati wa ubatizo, tunapokea nuru ya Kristo na tunaitwa kushiriki nuru hii na ulimwengu. Vazi jeupe - Vazi jeupe ambalo huwekwa juu yetu wakati wa ubatizo ni ishara ya ushindi wa Kristo juu ya kifo na ufufuo wake wa utukufu. Vivyo hivyo, vazi jeupe au ubao unaowekwa juu ya jeneza wakati wa kifo hukumbusha ahadi zetu za ubatizo na hutukumbusha kwamba tumekusudiwa uzima wa milele.
Wakati katika hali ya kawaida, sakramenti katika Kanisa Katoliki hutolewa kihalali na mshiriki wa wakleri waliowekwa rasmi, katika hali ya dharura, sakramenti ya ubatizo inaweza kutolewa na mtu yeyote. Iwapo ni lazima, mtu yeyote anaweza kubatiza mradi tu ana nia ya kufanya yale ambayo Kanisa linafanya na mradi amwage maji juu ya kichwa cha waombaji huku akisema: “Mimi nawabatiza kwa jina la Baba, na la Mwana, na la Roho Mtakatifu” (CCC 1284).
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