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Baptism is the first sacrament of the Church, and is the door through which we enter to the other sacraments.
We say vulgarily: “we have Christianized so and so”, that is: we have baptized him; because he has become a Christian through baptism. …..That is an expression which is sound in its doctrinal meaning, and which reminds us of the word of Christ: “He who believes and is baptized will
be saved” (Mark 16:16).
Therefore the day of baptism is a feast as regards the child and his family.
In that day, the Church gives him three sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist also; and makes him ready to participate in the life of the Church. He becomes a member in it, and takes the first ecclesiastical certificate in his life.
The Church assigns a sponsor to the child, who will care for him/her spiritually. This sponsor is to have the same gender as the child and is picked based on their spiritual strengths by the child's parents and is engaged before God and the Church to take care of her child in the fear of God, and to be his first teacher, who instructs him, and who gives him the practical training for all religious matters. This person is know as (ክርስትና አባት/እናት) in Amharic.
May the name of the Holy God be praised forever and ever in every tongue that He has created, today and always
May God's mother, the virgin, and the cross remain glorious, Amen.
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