Religious baptism phrases: original greetings


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Phrases of good wishes for the baptism of a girl or boy, aphorisms and religious quotations to be addressed to the newly baptized, as a good omen for his entry into the Catholic Church.


Baby baptism phrases

- Today you will have the first and most important meeting of your life, the one with Jesus. I wish you never to lose the way of the Lord, and I make you my dearest and most sincere best wishes for your Baptism.

- The blessing of the Lord always remain in the heart of the little one ... keeping it pure as on this holy day.


- May the light of Christ always illuminate you, so that you may be able to walk alone in life, always feeling complete in the love that the Lord will give you.

- Best wishes for your son Raffaele, with baptism he will become part of the great Christian family.

- On this special day, we are close to you and to your little treasure with all our affection.


- At the moment when the parish priest with the rite of baptism wet that little head with Holy water, your baby's crying moved us deeply. Best wishes.

- May this baptism revive, even if only for a split second, the moment when your love came into the world.

- On this day, with baptism, you meet for the first time Jesus who becomes part of your life as a Christian. Wishing you never to lose the way that leads to the Lord, I send you my dearest and most sincere wishes.


- May the blessing of the Lord received with baptism remain forever in the heart of the little one (name) keeping him as pure as on this day.

- We are close to you in a day of joy even greater than that of having given birth to a child: that of being able to count on divine protection in raising him and guiding him to good.

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Baby baptism phrases

- With so much joy we participate in your happiness on the occasion of your baby's baptism. Our sincere wishes!

- We sincerely participate in your happiness. That the little girl (...) can grow up in good health, surrounded and protected by the affection of her loved ones.

- We wish our little angel to grow in love, health and serenity, always protected by the benevolent gaze of the Lord.

- May the light of faith illuminate forever the journey of faith that you started on the day of your Baptism and protect you from all evil.

- Baptism is the bridge that Jesus built between himself and us, the way by which he makes himself accessible to us; it is the divine rainbow over our lives. (Benedict XVI)

- May life always smile to you, baby, don't forget to give your smile to all those who love you and will be close to you.

- All this is possible thanks to the strength of Baptism! (Pope francesco)


Baptism phrases wishes

- For those of us who believe deeply in God, it is a reason for joy to know that the little one (...) is taking his first steps on the path of salvation today.

- We are bearers of new hope, because Baptism gives us this new hope: the hope of going on the path of salvation, all life. (Pope francesco)

- Even if the baptism ceremony lasts only a few minutes, God's love will accompany you, protecting you, for a lifetime.

- With Baptism, we are immersed in that inexhaustible source of life which is the death of Jesus, the greatest act of love in all history; and thanks to this love we can live a new life, no longer at the mercy of evil, sin and death, but in communion with God and with our brothers and sisters. (Pope francesco)

- Happy birthday for the baptism of your son, an important day that (...) will understand when he is older.

- In Baptism each child is placed in a company of friends who will never abandon him in life and death, because this company of friends is the family of God, which carries within itself the promise of eternity. (Benedict XVI)


- Happy birthday to (... name ...) for your Baptism, a rite through which you receive the light of the Lord. May this day in which you wear white robes, mark the beginning of your journey of Christian life in the name of purity.

Baptism religious phrases

- Baptism is the sacrament on which our faith is based and which grafted us as living members in Christ and his Church. (Pope francesco)

- The radiant happiness of this day and its light accompany your child throughout his life.

- He who has kept the innocence of his Baptism is like a son who has never disobeyed his father. (Curated by d’Ars)

- On this special day, we are close to you and your child with all our affection.

- Baptism is an act of brotherhood, an act of filiation to the Church. In the celebration of Baptism we can recognize the most genuine features of the Church, which as a mother continues to generate new children in Christ, in the fruitfulness of the Holy Spirit. (Pope francesco)

- May the Lord welcomed today into your little heart make you an authentic instrument of peace and love in your life.

- Baptism is the bridge that Jesus built between himself and us, the way by which he makes himself accessible to us; it is the divine rainbow over our lives. (Benedict XVI)

Biblical verses on baptism

- Truly, truly, I say to you: whoever believes has eternal life. (Jn 6, 47)

- I baptize you with water, but after me comes one stronger than me who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. (Lk 3,16)

- Truly, truly, I say to you, if one is not born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (Jn 3: 5)

- Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God. Mt 5, 8


- Let the children come to me and do not prevent them, because the kingdom of God belongs to those who are like them. (Mk 10, 14)

- As the Father loved me, so I also loved you. Stay in my love. (Jn 15: 9)

- Anyone who drinks this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever, on the contrary, the water that I will give him will become in him a source of water that spurts for eternal life. (Jn 4:14)

Thoughts on baptism

Baptism phrases are those designed with the one who must receive this important sacrament of Christian life.

The phrases for baptism must first of all remember that it opens the access to the baptizing to the other sacraments and for this reason they become real baptism wishes to be pronounced and written by those who do not want to use half measures but intend to take advantage of this occasion to express baptismal phrases useful to all and able to remember in the memory of time this very significant day for Christians.

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