Baptisms are celebrated on the 4th Sunday of the month. A pre-baptismal workshop is required for parents, who are expected to be active members for at least three months. Please call Deacon Mike to make all arrangements - 610-262-2227.
Have you been asked to become, or are you looking for, a God-parent for Baptism or a Sponsor for Confirmation?
The Church requires two things:
1. The God-parent or Sponsor must be a registered member in a Catholic Church.
What does this mean?
This means that a registration form with your name, or the other person’s name, must be on file at the parish office.
2. The God-parent or Sponsor must be a practicing Catholic.
What does this mean?
This means that you regularly attend our Church every Sunday. If the other person attends another Church, they must contact their Church
to obtain the proper documents.
Once these two requirements are met, please contact our parish office to discuss issuing the proper certificate for the God-parent for Baptism
or Sponsor for Confirmation.
The sacrament of Baptism is the beginning of life—supernatural life.
Because of original sin, we come into the world with a soul which is supernaturally dead. We come into the world with only the natural endowments of human nature. The supernatural life which is the result of God's personal and intimate indwelling, is absent from the soul.
Original sin is not, in the strict sense, a "blot" upon the soul. Indeed, original sin is not a "something" at all. It is the absence of something that should be there. It is a darkness where there ought to be light.
Jesus instituted the sacrament of Baptism to apply to each individual soul the atonement which He made on the Cross for original sin.
Jesus will not force His gift upon us, the gift of supernatural life for which He paid. He holds the gift out to us hopefully, but each of us must freely accept it.
We make that acceptance by receiving the sacrament of Baptism.
When the sacrament of Baptism is administered, the spiritual vacuum which we call original sin disappears as God becomes present in the soul, and the soul is caught up into that sharing of God's own life which we call sanctifying grace.