Vatican website translation:<\/p>\n
70. Except during Eastertide, baptismal water may be blessed within the rite of baptism itself by an approved shorter formula.
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70. Aqua baptismalis, extra tempus paschale, in ipso ritu Baptismi probata formula breviore benedici potest.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> 70. Baptismal water, outside of Eastertide, can be blessed with a shorter approved formula during the rite of Baptism itself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Article 70 the Council Fathers respond to a custom that had prevailed in the Roman Rite since the Middle Ages that the Easter water blessed on Holy Saturday was to be preserved in the font for baptisms throughout the year. Part of the blessing of the Easter water included pouring sacred chrism into the water; in certain climates, as time passed this chrism could turn color or serve as the base for fungal growths, neither of which supported the central sign of water as life-giving and\/or cleansing. Therefore the Council Fathers in effect limited the use of Easter water in the baptismal font to the Eastertide itself and permitted the use of other water, blessed by a shorter formula, in the baptismal font at other times during the year.<\/p>\n Pray Tell<\/em> readers may wish to discuss how these concerns for the cleanliness and the life-giving signification of the baptismal water are responded to in present practice. Have any issues arisen when greater quantities of water are retained in immersion pool baptismal fonts or when pumps keep the baptismal water constantly flowing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Article 70 the Council Fathers respond to a custom that had prevailed in the Roman Rite since the Middle Ages that the Easter water blessed on Holy Saturday was to be preserved in the font for baptisms throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,3814,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-initiation-rcia","category-re-reading-sacrosanctum-concilium","category-vatican-ii"],"yoast_head":"\n
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