December 2024 Infant Baptism

May 6, 2024

Sessions:

1. Preparatory Session for Parents & Godparents

  • Saturday, 14 Dec 2024
  • 11:00am

2. Infant Baptism

  • Saturday, 21 Dec 2024
  • 11:00am

Both sessions are compulsory for parents and godparents.

 

Documents Required:

All documents are to be submitted to the Parish Office by 1 December 2024:

  • Application Form (obtainable from the Foyer TV, Notice Board Area or the Parish Office)
  • Church or ROM Wedding Certificate of Parents
  • Baptism Certificate of Parent(s) 
  • Birth Certificate of Child
  • Confirmation Certificate of Godparent(s)

Only submissions with all required documents will be accepted.
For clarifications, please contact the Parish Secretariat at 6784 2332 or email to htadmin@holytrinity.org.sg

 

Requirements to be Godparents or Sponsors:

(Taken from article: https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib4-cann834-878_en.html#TITLE_I.)

Can. 872 Insofar as possible, a person to be baptized is to be given a sponsor who assists an adult in Christian initiation or together with the parents presents an infant for baptism.
A sponsor also helps the baptized person to lead a Christian life in keeping with baptism and to fulfill faithfully the obligations inherent in it.

Can. 873 There is to be only one male sponsor or one female sponsor or one of each.

Can. 874 §1. To be permitted to take on the function of sponsor a person must:

1. be designated by the one to be baptized, by the parents or the person who takes their place, or in their absence by the pastor or minister and have the aptitude and intention of fulfilling this function;

2. have completed the sixteenth year of age, unless the diocesan bishop has established another age, or the pastor or minister has granted an exception for a just cause;

3. be a Catholic who has been confirmed and has already received the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist and who leads a life of faith in keeping with the function to be taken on;

4. not be bound by any canonical penalty legitimately imposed or declared;

5. not be the father or mother of the one to be baptized.

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