Parents must be active registered members of St. James for at least three months or have pastoral permission to have their child baptized at St. James. Parents and godparents, must complete the online Belonging course through Ascension Press.
Click here for our Baptism Guidelines. Please call the Parish Office for more information regarding the requirements and policies of baptism.
Baptism Preparation Online Instructions
We are using the Belonging online course through Ascension Press for our baptismal preparation course. To access the course please use the button below…
The cost is $11.95. Once you have completed the course, you will be sent a certificate. Please print your certificate.
Some additional notes of importance:
Please complete the online registration forms. You can find it using the button below…
It is customary to offer the priest or deacon a stipend for performing the baptism.
***Photos and videos of the Baptism are welcomed as long as the Sacramental Rite is not interrupted in any way.
The practice of infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church. There is explicit testimony to this practice from the second century on, and it is quite possible that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole “households” received baptism, infants may also have been baptized. (1252)