“Why Baptizing Your Baby Is the Most Important Thing You Can Do”

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Why does the Catholic Church baptize babies rather than wait until they are older and capable of choosing this sacrament for themselves?

Salvation requires faith, and it can be challenging to understand how an infant accepts the truths of the Catholic Faith at the moment of Baptism.

Today Fr. Mike uses an example from Mark’s Gospel to help us understand how the profession of faith by our parents at the moment of our Baptism prepares us to receive the gift of salvation later in our lives.

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0:00.0	A, what's the profound thing that happens to a person at baptism?
0:02.9	And B, but if this child is just a child,
0:06.4	if this child is just a couple months old,
0:07.8	a couple weeks old, however old this child is,
0:09.9	why would you baptize a baby?
0:11.7	And that's a good question.
0:12.8	I love it.
0:13.6	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz,
0:14.3	and this is a sense of resistance.
0:15.4	So last weekend, I had the opportunity to do a baptism.
0:18.7	I don't often get to do baptisms, right?
0:20.7	Because I could do a lot of marriage preps,
0:22.1	and then a lot of weddings,
0:23.0	and then they're like, see you later.
0:24.8	And they take off, and I don't get to see them again.
0:26.8	Well, this is a couple, Kyle and Nicole,
0:28.5	they're amazing.
0:29.5	They have three kids, now they have four.
0:31.1	So I got to baptize a little Owen,
0:32.6	who has an older brother, a 12-year sisters.
0:34.5	It was amazing, not only because of the baptism itself,
0:37.6	but what was really made,
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