Baptisms / Christenings
Baptism and Christening are the same thing by different names. (See later).
Anyone of any age, who hasn’t been baptised before and who lives in Holy Apostles
parish or who regularly attends church here is entitled to be baptised in Holy Apostles
or Holy Trinity Church.
People from outside the parish are sometimes baptised here,
please ask.
Contact Marion in the first instance if you want to know more
( Preferably after Worship
on a Sunday
but if this isn’t possible
please use phone or email)
Usually a short meeting or course
to discuss arrange details and prepare
for the
baptism is arranged with
the parents or candidate. For this
normally a minister will
visit at home.
Most baptisms take place during the
11.00am Sunday Worship on the first
Sunday of a month.
Baptism is a greek word meaning immerse and refers to the water which is poured over someone at their baptism as a symbol of God’s cleansing power working to wash away wrong from their life.
It also refers to the decision a baptised person makes to immerse themselves in the teaching of Jesus Christ, to follow his lifestyle and to put their trust in the salvation from death brought about by Jesus death and resurrection. Christening refers to this decision to be Christ like and Christ dependant. It also links into the fact that historically people (be they adults, children or babies) were given Christian names to symbolise the decision to become Christians in preference to belonging to another faith. Christian names always used to be from the bible and whatever the priest named you that was your legal name. Today this is no longer the case and people who become Christians in England seldom take on a new name. In other parts of the world this still happens, whilst in this country it is common for Christians who join another religion to take a name from that faith.
