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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. It’s not just reading, it’s making DC resist prayers over and over. I know my mother. This is not a nice open ended discussion about Jesus. This id fir her own satisfaction. She’s gotten sneaky in her old age. [/quote]

I believe you OP. My own mother did not do this, but I can't tell you the number of times I had to hear about my brother not baptizing his kids, to include her joking that she was going to get some holy water and baptize them when they were alone. She didn't do that, but I get it.

This is a huge breach of trust and crashing through boundaries. I think for me it would be a sit down with my mom, possibly with my husband there as well, and telling her that she doesn't have to like what I've chosen as an adult, but she has to accept it.

If she wanted to take your son to church, in the open, I'd probably argue that you should let her. But this sneaking around and asking him to keep the Bible reading secret is a no go. [/quote]

No, a random person can’t just baptize someone.

Troll. [/quote]

Actually, a random person can baptize someone.  They don't even have to be Christian, only intend to "do what the Church does."  Not that they should, of course.  [/quote]

In what church? Where? [/quote]

This is an established Catholic belief and presumably therefore true of other Christian denominations. Baptism doesn’t require a church, a font or holy water. All that is necessary, as PP observed, is the pouring of water over the head while reciting the Ttinitarian formula of baptism (“[Name], I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.”). And as PP also observed, the person doing the baptism can be a non-Christian or even a non-believer entirely so long as in doing the action and reciting the formula they intend what the Church intends.

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