shpalman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:02 pm
"The issue with using 'We' is that it is not the community that baptizes a person, rather, it is Christ, and Him alone, who presides at all of the sacraments, and so it is Christ Jesus who baptizes," Olmsted wrote in a message to parishioners posted last month.
But it's not though is it it's the human doing it.
I just read the reasons why, linked to in the article -
clicky. Apparently, they worked this one out in the 13th Century. To be honest, it makes sense
if you believe what Catholics believe (I don't). If you believe in transubstantiation and the Priest's role in it, you shouldn't have much trouble with this one.
I am finding it amusing though, it is a bit "You only had one job".
And The Archers has a storyline about not being baptised when you thought you were baptised going on at the moment. It's only Harrison though, I don't think they're going have to do a mass one in the Am.