Baptism
Contact your Parish office to request a Baptism.
Our Lady of Mercy & St. Brigid: (585) 768-6543, option 4
Ascension Church: (585) 343-1796
Resurrection Parish: (585) 343-5800
For infant Baptism (newborn through age 6), you will be provided with a Baptism registry form and godparent eligibility forms. Once these forms are complete and returned to the Parish office, the Baptism can be schedule. Baptisms are typically celebrated during the weekend Mass. If this is your first child, there will be a Baptism class you will attend as well.
During Baptism, the child's parents are asked:
You have asked to have your child baptized. In doing so you are accepting the responsibility of training him (her) in the practice of the faith. It will be your duty to bring him (her) up to keep God's commandments as Christ taught us, by loving God and our neighbor. Do you clearly understand what you are undertaking?
In turn godparents are asked:
Are you ready to help the parents of this child in their duty as Christian parents?
Eligibility requirements to serve as godparents:
- I am at least 16 years of age.
- I am not the parent of the person being baptized.
- I am a practicing Catholic who has been registered at a Catholic parish for at least the past three (3) months.
- I have received the sacraments of Baptism, First Holy Communion and Confirmation in the Catholic Church.
- I participate weekly in Mass on Sundays, and on Holy Days, and receive the Sacraments of Eucharist and Reconciliation.
- I regularly contribute to the financial needs of my parish.
- If married, I am validly married according to the laws of the Catholic Church. If divorced, I have not remarried outside the Catholic Church.
- I realize that I assume a great responsibility before God and the Church in becoming a Godparent and I will faithfully fulfill its obligations. I will support the person I am Godparenting by my prayers and the Christian example of my daily life.
Click below for Eligibility Forms to serve as a godparent for each of the Parishes in our family:
Non-Catholic Sponsors
- A baptized Christian who is practicing his Christian non-Catholic faith may act as a Christian witness, not as a sponsor, as long as there is one Catholic Sponsor. This non-Catholic witness may not be a former Catholic.
Number of Sponsors Needed
- One Godparent is needed, two are allowed, but then they cannot be of the same sex.