Preparation and regular Faith Practice are required. When you wish to have your child baptized, please call the parish center office at 586-725-2441 to sign up for a
Baptismal Preparation Class. After Baptismal Preparation has been completed and all paperwork has been received, you will be given a date for your child's baptism.
Through symbolic immersion in the waters of baptism, you are “grafted into the paschal mystery of Christ.” In a mysterious way, you “die with him, are buried with him, and rise with him” (Sacred Liturgy, 6 [1086]. Having died to sin (both original sin and personal sins are cleansed away in the waters of baptism), you have entered the community of the Church “as through a door.” Your irrevocable baptism into Christ was the beginning of a unique lifelong vocation. Many people exercise their baptismal calling through parish activities. They assist the parish as liturgical ministers, religious education teachers, members of parish council, as parents in society, in social outreach ministries like Saint’s Place and various other ministries. These are only some of the ways in which baptized members of Christ’s body live out the mystery of their baptismal vocation.
Through your baptism, you share with others “the sacramental bond of unity existing among all who through it are reborn” (Decree on Ecumenism 22). Your baptism can never be repeated because it binds you to God forever. The bond is unbreakable. It is possible for you to lose grace and even faith, but you cannot lose your baptism. You are marked as one of God’s own. That same bond links you to all baptized persons in a sacramental way. You are one of us and we are all “sacrament” persons.” Together we are called to live until death the sacramental mystery into which we have been immersed