This is RCT number 60, the Ceremonies of Baptism.

RCT stands for the Roman Catechism of Trent.

Today we are on pages 203 to 209. This is the sacraments.

Episode 12, God grant you his peace.

In nomi Patrice, if it's speedy to santi, amen.

O heavenly king, comforter, spirit of truth, who are everywhere present and fillest all things,

treasure of good things and giver of life come and dwell in us and cleanse us of all impurity and save our souls.

O good one, enomni pachis, if Sifidi, et spiti to santi, amen.

The Roman Catechism of Trent reads today, the ceremonies of baptism, their importance.

It now remains to explain clearly and concisely what is to be taught concerning the prayers,

rights, and ceremonies of this sacrament. To rights and ceremonies may,

in some measure, be applied what the apostle says of the gift of tongues that it is

unprofitable to speak unless the faithful understand. They present an image and convey the

signification of the things that are done in the sacrament. But if the people do not understand the force and meaning of these signs,

there is but little advantage derived from ceremonies.

Pastors should take care, therefore, to make them understood and to impress the minds of the faithful

with a conviction that although ceremonies are not of absolute necessity,

they are of very great importance and deserve great veneration. This, the authority of those by whom they were instituted, who were, no doubt

the apostles and also the object of their institution, sufficiently prove. It is manifest that ceremonies contribute to the more religious and holy admiration, holy

administration of the sacraments, served to place, as it were, before the eyes the exalted

and inestimable gifts which they contain and impress on the minds of the faithful a deeper

sense of the boundless

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