The water that I will give will become in you a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
Reception of the child
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Questioning of parents at the entrance of the church
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The signing of the cross on the forehead of the child
Structure
Possible Readings for a Baptism from the Old Testament
Exodus 17, 3-7 When you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it
Ezekiel 36,24-28 I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean
Ezekiel 47,1-9.12 and everything wherever the water comes will have life.
Zechariah 12, 10a; 13,1.9bc In that day there will be a fountain open to the people of God, for sin and for that which is unclean.
Possible Readings for a Baptism from the New Testament
Rom 6,3-5
Rom 8,28-32
1 Cor 12,12-13
Gal 3,26-28
Eph 4,1-6
1 Petr 2,4-5.9-10
Apok 21,1-6
Mt 22,35-40
Mt 28,18-20
Mk 1,9-11
Mk 10,13-16
Mk 12,28b-34
John 3,1-6
John 4,5-14
John 7,37-39a
John 9,-7
John 15,1-11
