828: Don’t Baptize on Hair! 9 Causes of Invalid/Doubtful Baptisms [Podcast]
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Dr. Taylor Marshall
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🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the last two years, there's been several news stories of many people discovering that |
| 0:08.0 | they were not validly baptized. |
| 0:10.7 | Since the Second Vatican Council, some priests, some deacons have taken liberty to the form |
| 0:16.2 | and the matter of baptism so that when they administered what they thought they were doing |
| 0:21.2 | as baptism rendered the sacrament invalid. |
| 0:25.5 | They could be changing the words, for example, saying, I baptized you in the name of the |
| 0:30.5 | creator, redeemer, and sanctifier in valid, or it could be the way baptism is done. |
| 0:37.1 | And one of the most common problems is baptizing the back of the head. |
| 0:41.7 | As you can see in this picture, baptism must be on the skin traditionally at least on |
| 0:48.4 | the forehead or the front of the face. |
| 0:51.0 | The problem here is when someone has a lot of hair, they're not bald, and you pour water |
| 0:57.8 | on the back of the head, there's lots of hair. |
| 1:00.5 | If the water doesn't run on the skin while he says, I baptized you in the name of the father |
| 1:05.7 | and the son and the Holy Spirit, that baptism is invalid. |
| 1:09.7 | And it has to be done properly as we see here, for example, on this image with the baptism |
| 1:15.0 | of King Clovis of the Franks. |
| 1:17.0 | As you can see, the bishop, I think it was Ramijas might have that wrong, he's pouring, |
| 1:22.7 | first off, he's in a font. |
| 1:24.2 | This is the traditional Roman baptism. |
| 1:26.2 | We're not used to it. |
| 1:27.4 | But traditional Roman baptism is standing in a giant adult-sized font with water usually |
| 1:33.4 | up to your knees or waist. |
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