Why aren’t baptisms performed during Lent? Here at Holy Spirit Parish, it is a long-held practice that baptisms are not performed during the Season of Lent.
Lent is our desert time, a time of prayer, fasting, and penitence. In general, baptisms are a time of festive celebration, and thus contrary to the penitential season.
Exceptions are made, such as in cases of emergency. “An infant in danger of death is to be baptized without delay” (CAN. 867).
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