A Note From Our Parochial Vicor: November 30, 2025

If I were to ask you what the most important promises are, how would you respond? While most may say wedding vows, there is another kind we all share regardless of vocation. I am speaking about the Baptismal promises we periodically renew at Mass. But have you ever stopped to think about what you are saying “I do” to?

I remember listening to a podcast with a former marriage/family therapist named Dr. Bob Schuchts. He encouraged his listeners to pray their baptismal vows daily. His point was that our Baptismal promises are the foundation of our walk with God. They keep us attuned to the choices and decisions we make. In short, these are not hollow words, but the standard of how we live.

Let us ask ourselves how we are living up to these promises and where we are falling short. Let us never forget it is God who gives us the grace to live out these vows, and by our reection, we can ask for His help where we most need it…and as always, God is happy to provide!

Below I have listed the Baptismal vows, and I invite you to take some time praying with them. I would also encourage having them in a location where you can see and reflect on them constantly:

Do you renounce sin, so as to live in the freedom of the children of God?

Do you renounce the lure of evil, so that sin may have no mastery over you?

Do you renounce Satan, the author and prince of sin?

Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth?

Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered death and was buried, rose again from the dead and is seated at the right hand of the Father?

Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting?

God bless,

Fr. Ben