Sacrament of Baptism

To inquire about having your child baptized, please call the parish office: 630-355-1081. Please contact the parish office to make certain the date you want is available before making plans with your family.

Baptism Preparation Classes are held every other month on the first Monday in the Parish Ministry Center at 7 p.m. If this is your first child, you must attend a class before receiving a date for your baby's baptism. Both parents are asked to attend. Godparents are also welcome, but not required to attend. Call the Parish office at 630-355-1081 to register for a class. If you have attended a class within the last 10 years (at any parish) you need not re-attend. You may attend prior to or after the birth of your child.

Baptisms are held at Saints Peter & Paul each Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. Private Baptisms are scheduled only with special circumstances approved by the Pastor. Please contact the parish office to make sure the date you want is available before making plans with your family.

If you are adult who has not yet been baptized, please click here to inquire about the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA, formerly RCIA).

Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit, and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: 'Baptism is the sacrament of regeneration through water in the word.'"
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1213

The purpose of the godparent is to guide the child in the ways of the faith so that they may reach heaven.
The godparent must: 

• have completed their 16th year
• be a Catholic who has received their First Communion and Sacrament of Confirmation
• lead a life in harmony with the faith and the role to be undertaken
• not be bound by any canonical penalty legitimately imposed or declared
• not be the father or the mother

• is practicing their faith weekly
• believes what the Church believes
• is validly married in the Church or living a chaste single life
• and has no other obstacles to being a good Catholic example of Christian life.

A person of another Christian denomination or other religion cannot be a godparent; however, a Christian person of another Christian denomination may serve as a Christian witness (which is not a godparent however,their name will appear with "Christian Witness" notated on certificate). A Catholic cannot be a Christian witness. Any Catholic party is bound by the laws which govern godparents, above.  An individual who has left the Catholic faith cannot be a Christian witness or godparent because they have freely chosen no longer to live in the Catholic faith. 

A completed Sponsor Certificate (see link above) must be provided for each godparent, signed by a priest and with the church seal, no later than two weeks prior to the baptism date. If the required paperwork is not submitted with in that time, the baptism may have to be rescheduled. If the godparent is a registered parishioner of Saints Peter and Paul, he/she will complete the top portion of the form and submit it to the parish office for completion.