BAPTISM 1. Infants for Baptism; 2. Children for Baptism; 3. Baptism of Adults 1. Infants for Baptism a. Age: Below 6 years of age. b.Requirements + Parents be either baptized or catechumens + Godparents must be catholic + Both parents and godparents must take part in the two months' instruction. + Parents who have already done the course (here in Egypt) before (in a previous baptism of another child) are expected to attend only the last meeting. c. Duration of the preparation. + 2 months d. Time of celebration + Preferably outside Sunday Mass + Sakakini and Arbaa wy Nus: evry two months +Maadi and Zeitun: every 4 months. 2. Children for Baptism a. Age: Above 6 years of age and below 15 b. Requirements: Consent of the parents. c. Duration of the preparation: At least 6 months d. Time of celebration At the end of the instruction in one single celebration, but not during Easter Vigil, which will be reserved to the Baptism of Adults. 3. Baptism of Adults a. Age: Above 16 years of age. b. Requirements. Depending on the situation: + When a non-christian couple (living in a traditional or civil marriage) receive baptism together, their marriage becomes a Sacrament and as such has to be notified to the couple and registered. However their marital consent will have to be declared publicly. + A catechumen is married traditionally to somebody already baptized: they have to celebrate Christian marriages on the same day of Baptism. + A catechumen is married to a non-baptized person: S/he can receive baptism making clear that he/she is bound to a marriage according to the meaning of Christian marriage. + A catechumen permanently separated from the husband/wife and with no chance to rejoin him/her and who is not married again and with no intention of getting married, can be baptized and receive sacraments. c. Duration of the preparation: 1 year d. Time of the celebration + The instruction begins during Easter time and continues until Easter in the following year.

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