Pre-baptismal and Baptismal liturgies

Pre-baptismal and Baptismal liturgies

Introduction

Baptism is the Christian rite of repentance and cleansing from sin, having the form of sacramental washing of water. According to the Christian faith it is important rite of incorporation into Christ as the crucified and risen Lord, and connects to the People of God of the New Covenant (Day, 2007). Typical Christian rite of baptism is celebrated in the name of the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - at the direction of the founder of the Christ. There is more than one cause for a serious rethinking of the content of the Reformed doctrine of baptism. In this context, the main argument is that this is due to rethinking the very nature of the church denominations (Cummins, 1997). That is, we need to thoroughly think about the faith of the church, expressed in the confessions, to think on the basis of God's Word, taking into account both the old and new aspects (Hamman, 1967).

The view that loyalty by religious wording frees us from this duty, helps to ensure that we begin to relate to the practice as immutable (not subject to change) the monuments, thus destroying the very essence of life, born of faith in the living God and the infallible Word. In this context, we should remember that the Church's teaching on baptism contains and reveals the important conditions that apply to the totality of the Christian life to God in the church (Byars, 2011). The objective of this essay is to Compare and contrast the pre-baptismal and baptismal liturgies in the Apostolic Tradition and the Old Gelasian Sacramentary, by describing the role of both sacramental and other signs in these liturgies. Secondly, it focuses on the issues that in what ways did historical and cultural events impacted these rites and do these developments in ritual speak to an enduring theology of baptism in the context of differing pastoral circumstances?

Discussion

The sacramental Gelasian is a liturgical book that contains the prayers and prefaces necessary for the celebration of the Mass (with the exception of readings and topics) in a liturgical uses ancient Rome and adopted some of the dioceses space-German franc. That is, after the Sacramentary of Verona, the oldest evidence of the liturgy of the Mass according to the Roman rites (Day, 2007). The book is preserved in a single manuscript, now in the Vatican Apostolic Library , in the fund manuscripts of Queen Christina of Sweden , with the exception of a few leaves kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Byars, 2011). The book bears the title of Liber sacramentorum Romanae ecclesiae and it does not mention of Pope Gelasius I, in which an ancient tradition dating back to Walahfrid Strabo relates to it and contains 186 prefaces. The Sacramentary was probably compiled by Chelles, near Paris, between 628 and 731. It is a book of Roman origin but underwent many alterations in the sense Gallican. There are several versions of the Sacramentary Gelasian, as ...