The sponsors with the child (or the one to be baptized if he be an adult) turn about and face the West, with their backs to the priest. The priest then asks the following question three times:
Priest: Do you renounce Satan, and all his works, and all his angels, and all his service, and all his pride? (Three times)
And each time the sponsor, or the one to be baptized if he be an adult, answers:
Candidate: I do renounce him!
Priest: Have you renounced Satan? (Three times)
And each time the sponsor, or the one to be baptized if he be an adult, answers:
Candidate: I have renounced him!
Then the priest says:
Priest: Breathe and spit upon him!
The sponsors with the child (or adult) now turn about back to the East, and they stand facing the priest.
The priest asks them three times:
Do you unite yourself to Christ? (Three times)
And each time the sponsor, or the one to be baptized if he be an adult, answers:
Candidate: I do unite myself to Christ.
Then the priest asks another question:
Priest: Have you united yourself to Christ?
Candidate: I have united myself to Christ.
Priest: Do you believe in Him?
Candidate: I believe in Him as King and God.
The Symbol of Faith
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After the Creed, the Priest makes the following inquiry three times:
Priest: Have you united yourself to Christ? (Three times)
The child (or Sponsor) responds each time:
Candidate: I have united myself to Christ.
Priest: Bow down before Him.
Candidate: (bowing) I bow down before the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, one in essence and undivided.
Priest: Blessed is God, Who desirest that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
People: Amen.
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The Tonsure
Deacon: Let us pray to the Lord.
People: Lord, have mercy.
Priest: O Master, Lord our God, Who hast honored man with Thine own image, Thou hast fashioned him from a reason-endowed soul and a comely body (for the body serves the reason-endowed soul). For Thou didst set the head on high, and didst endow it with the chiefest portion of the senses, which, nevertheless, impede not one another; and Thou hast covered the head with hair, that it be not injured with the changes of the weather, and hast fitly joined together all his members, that with them all he may give thanks to Thee, the Great Artificer. Thou, the same Master, through Thy chosen vessel, the Apostle Paul, hast given us a commandment that we should do all things to Thy glory. Bless, now, Thy servant, __, who is come to make a first offering shorn from the hair of his (her) head, and likewise his (her) Sponsor; and grant that they may all exercise themselves in Thy law, and do those things which are well-pleasing in Thy sight. For Thou art a merciful God, Who lovest mankind, and unto Thee we ascribe glory, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
People: Amen.
Priest: Peace be with you all.
People: And with your spirit.
Deacon: Bow your heads unto the Lord.
People: To Thee, O Lord.
Priest: O Lord our God, through the fulfilling of the baptismal font, Who, by Thy goodness, dost sanctify them that believe on Thee. Bless this child here present, and let Thy blessing descend upon his (her) head. And as Thou didst bless David the King by the hand of Thy Prophet Samuel, bless also the head of Thy servant, __, by the hand of me, a sinner, inspiring him (her) with Thy Holy Spirit; that as he (she) increases in stature, and even unto a ripe full age, he (she) may ascribe glory unto Thee, and behold the good things of Jerusalem all the days of his (her) life. For unto Thee belong all glory, honor, and worship, to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages.
People: Amen.
Taking the scissors, the Priest cuts the hair of the child in the form of a cross, saying:
Priest: The servant of God, __, is tonsured: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
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