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    Renewal of Baptismal Promises

    Prayer Introduction

    Leader: Today we have the opportunity to renew our baptismal promises and
    rededicate ourselves to letting God work through us as disciples of Christ.

    All: Sign of the Cross

    Scripture Reading

    Reader: A reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans (Rm 6:3–8),

    Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his
    death? We were indeed buried with him through Baptism into death, so that, just as
    Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in
    newness of life.

    For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be
    united with him in the resurrection. We know that our old self was crucified with him,
    so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery
    to sin. For a dead person has been absolved from sin. If, then, we have died with Christ,
    we believe that we shall also live with him.

    The Word of the Lord.

    All: Thanks be to God.


    Meditation on the Reading

    Leader: St. Paul wrote that your Baptism makes you a sharer in Jesus’ Passion, Death,
    and Resurrection. When you unite yourself to Jesus by remembering your Baptism and
    accepting the call to actively follow him, you choose to live in Christ. It may seem that
    living as a disciple of Christ is asking a lot of you. Do not be afraid of the radicalness of
    the call from your Baptism, but remember that Jesus, who loved you first, is ready to
    give himself to you. If Christ asks much from you, it is because he has given you the
    grace to do it. It is through the graces of Baptism we can have a life of joy and
    fulfillment.

    Renewal of Baptismal Promises

    Leader: Through the Paschal Mystery we have been buried with Christ in Baptism that
    we may walk with him in newness of life. Let us renew the promises of holy Baptism,
    which we once renounced Satan and his works and promised to serve God in the holy
    Catholic Church. And so I ask you:

    Leader: Do you renounce sin, so as to live in the freedom of the children of God?

    All: I do.

    Leader: Do you renounce the lure of evil, so that sin may have no mastery over you?

    All: I do.

    Leader: Do you renounce Satan, the author and prince of sin?

    All: I do.

    Leader: Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth?

    All: I do.

    Leader: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the
    Virgin Mary, suffered death and was buried, rose again from the dead and is seated at
    the right hand of the Father?

    All: I do.
    Leader: Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of
    saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting?

    All: I do.

    Leader: And may almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given
    us new birth by water and the Holy Spirit and bestowed on us forgiveness of our sins,
    keep us by his grace, in Christ Jesus our Lord, for eternal life.

    All: Amen.

    (Leader takes the bowl of holy water)

    Leader: Blessed are you, Lord, all-powerful God, who in Christ, the living water of
    salvation, blessed and transformed us. Grant that when we are sprinkled with this
    water or make use of it, we will be refreshed inwardly by the power of the Holy Spirit
    and continue to walk in the new life we received at Baptism.

    We ask this though Christ our Lord.

    All: Amen.

    (Leader blesses himself with the holy water using the Sign of the Cross. He around
    letting each student bless himself with holy water using the Sign of the Cross.)

    Closing Prayer

    Leader: Lord, we thank you for the gift of Baptism by which you have saved us and
    made us your children.

    All: May this renewal of our baptismal promises remind us of your great love and bring
    about our ongoing conversion. Help us to no longer live for ourselves, but for you.

    Leader: In Jesus’ name we pray.

    All: Amen.

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