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ROVIDED an infant is in danger of dying before a Priest can be procured, any other person, whether man, woman, or child, may baptize it in the following manner:

Whilst pouring common water on the head of the infant, pronounce the words, “I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” The water must be common and natural water, and must be poured on by the same person who repeats the words; and care must be taken to repeat the words exactly, and to pronounce them at the same time that the water is poured on. 

MY God, through thy great mercy I have received three of thy most holy sacraments; the ﬁrst to make me thy child, the second to eﬁace the stains which sin had made in my soul, the third to unite me with thy divine Son. Grant, then, I beseech thee, that the sacrament which I am now preparing to receive may avail to the making me a perfect Christian; that it may give me strength and courage to combat my evil habits, to overcome all my temptations, to conform myself perfectly to thy Law, and to become a true soldier of Jesus Christ, ready to suffer anything rather than