Re: UK: Phillips Kelly wedding and the Act of Settlement once


"Rico" <hoganrj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Anne" <annerandall@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| "Sacha" <sacha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > On 25/3/08 17:07, in article 20080325130707.538$P8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Gary
| > Holtzman" <garyholtzman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >
| snip.
| > >
| > > I was also puzzled by the assertion that having been baptised RC,
Ms.
| Kelly
| > > cannot alter the situation. Is is not possible for her to convert
to
| the
| > > Church of England, be baptised again and marry as an Anglican?
| >
| > I think I'm right in saying that you are never baptised again. A
baptism
| is
| > an acceptance into the Christian faith, no matter which of its
doctrines
| you
| > follow. It may well be possible for Miss Kelly to become an Anglican
but
| > reports are that her family are devout Roman Catholics.
| > --
| > Sacha
|
| Anglican creeds say that we "believe in one baptism", but I have two
| godchildren, one baptised in the Anglican Church of Canada and the other
in
| the Episcopalian Church in the USA who have each been "rebaptised" as an
| adult in a Baptist or similar ceremony. My Episcopalian goddaughter is
now
| divorced and back in the Episcopalian church, but she has had the two
| baptisms.
|
| An acquaintance in our parish was first baptised in a United Church of
| Canada church, and talked our interim priest in charge to "rebaptise"
her
in
| our church.
|
| Several years ago one of our curates and his wife adopted a toddler from
| Russia. The child had been baptised there, she was received into our
| Anglican church, but her maternal grandfather, a Presbyterian minister,
saw
| nothing wrong with her being "rebaptised" - so there are all too many
| denominations, and ministers, willing to do so.
|
Any church which does not practice infantile baptisim teaches that
baptisim
must be by personal choice, not parental choice as is the practice of the
Anglicans, Catholics and Orthodox religions, thus invalidating the
anglican
baptisim and asking for the rebaptisim of your god children. Some
protestant churches will also desire re baptisim for its members if they
had
been baptised by choice just by the sprinking of water over the head since
they teach that full immersion baptisim is the only correct form.

I can understand that, but each of these two godchildren chose to be
confirmed into the Anglican Church of Canada or the Episcopalian Church in
the USA, so they had chosen to be members of those churches.


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