1. I was baptised aged 3 days. My mother was sick and could not attend. My mother had to be “cleansed” after giving birth by a priest.
2. The Holy Spirit is within us. Use the Holy Spirit in our communities and in the world.
3. I was baptised twice: Aged 5 as an Anglican and 32 years later as a Roman Catholic.
4. The baptism of Jesus by John shows he was fully human.
5. Baptism is not just for the lower ranks of society, also the upper ranks are included. Some do listen to the word of God, and are humble and care for those who have nothing.
6. We must “Move from Churchianity to Christianity”. We must be followers of Christ not followers of the patriarchal church.
7. Baptism makes each of us an Alter Christus. This is a high understanding of baptism Incarnation continues in us. St Theresa of Avila said: “Christ has no hands but our hands; no eyes but our eyes; no words but our words.” When God calls, do we say “Here I am?”
8. We have a responsibility from our baptism. Lay people should ask the clergy to explain the responsibility of the laity? The ordained are supposed to be there to support the laity. I was baptised a Catholic thanks to the faith of my parents. It was my choice to stay with it. Matthew Fox’s “Original Blessing” bowled me over. The theology regarding Original Sin should change.
9. The theologian Prof. Herbert Haag wrote about Original Sin. It used to be taught that without baptism an infant could not enter heaven!
10. Baptism is Good News; feeling blessed. Baptism means opening up a way to join the community.
11. Original sin could be understood as human condition without God. Without Grace we cannot succeed. There were disputes between Protestants and Catholics regarding regarding justification by our own actions, or by faith. Without grace (faith) we cannot do anything worthwhile.
12. Baptism into the Roman Catholic Church or Church of Ireland is unfortunate in the extreme. Recruited to a partisan group. Theology is the only subject where you can arrive at nonsense conclusions without any arguments. It gives power to church authorities. They have the “keys” to control people. God can allow whoever God wants into heaven. Theologians cannot decide who to admit to heaven.
13. A special thanks to Hugo Castelli and Members of Espiritualidad e Iglesia (Madrid) who developed our ZOOM Eucharist for 10 January 2026.
14. I was baptized when I was, I don't know, seven days old. Of course I was unconscious. Today I understand that we aren't baptized because we are guilty from the beginning, that we aren't children of God because we are baptízed, but the other way around: we renew our baptism because we are children of God. It’s different. Through our baptism we believe we can be all siblings, and we want the Church of Jesus to be a sign of universal fraternity. This is what baptism means to me.