{"id":175,"date":"2016-10-30T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.wordpress.com\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T08:24:51","slug":"baptisms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/sacrements\/baptisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The birth of a baby is a very special and joyful event in a family. We warmly welcome parents who wish to have their child baptised.\u00a0 Baptism is the first sacrament received as the child becomes a member of God&#8217;s family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There will be a baptism meeting on Tuesday 28th July at 7.30pm for the parents of those children being baptised during the month of August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of the Baptism Team welcome and support parents who ask for the gift of Baptism for their children. The Baptism Team\u00a0represent the parish welcoming community, as Baptism is a parish celebration as well as a family one.\u00a0Members\u00a0of the Baptism Team\u00a0with the parents, to explore the\u00a0meaning and significance\u00a0of Baptism, enabling the family to celebrate their child&#8217;s Baptism\u00a0in a meaningful and welcoming way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Baptisms take place on<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">first Saturday of the month at 4 pm<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">third Sunday of the month at 12.30 pm. (after 11.30 Sunday Mass)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Baptism Preparation meeting takes place on the Monday evening before the first Saturday at 7.30pm in the church. If this day happens to be a bank holiday the meeting will be transferred to the Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please book the Baptism the previous month by contacting the Parish Office, details can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.wordpress.com\/locate-us\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For an adult seeking Baptism, they are introduced to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ballygallparish.wordpress.com\/rite-of-christian-initiation-for-adults-rcia\/\">RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults)<\/a> programme. Usually the adult has reflected on this for a long time and has decided that they would like to have a Christian identity and a sense of belonging to the Christian faith community. Our Parish RCIA team supports the adult seeking Baptism on their journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465,"parent":505,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29562,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/29562"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballygallparish.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}