A Deacon's Guide to Baptizing Children: A Pastoral and Theological Approach Clergy Shirts and Gaudium et Spes—with illuminating

and Gaudium et Spes—with illuminating commentary from the postconciliar popes and Bishop Robert Barron interspersed throughout

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She talks to her mom

as he sits outside Bethlehem

A Deacon's Guide to Baptizing Children: A Pastoral and Theological Approach Clergy Shirts and Gaudium et Spes—with illuminatingWhen deacons reflect on their baptismal call, it opens a conversation about their vocation to the diaconate and helps them break open the meaning of the rite and each of its symbols. As an ordinary minister of the sacrament of baptismand in many cases, performing most baptisms in a parishthe deacon is central to welcoming a new family and child to into their parish community. A Deacons Guide to Baptizing Children: A Pastoral and Theological Approach