This is a quick summary of the preparation we offer for you:
- We recommend you watch introductory video Sessions 1, 2, and 3 offered here (NB: Parish Code is GKQCNW).
- Please email Eleanor Nicholson, Director of Religious Education to sign up for a mandatory baptism class (held on the third Sunday of each month from 10:45-11:45). Pleased indicate on which date you will attend (see calendar on this page).
- Contact us to request a personal meeting to discuss Baptism and how we can assist your "domestic church".
- Prayerfully select a godparent or godparents for your child, considering all of the points listed above. Feel free to share this page and to invite prospective godparents to baptism class with you. Each godparent must fill out a Godparent Attestation Form and submit it to the parish office (hardcopies mailed: ATTN: Eleanor Nicholson, St.Thomas Aquinas Church, 401 Alderman Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 OR signed and scanned copies emailed here).
- Contact the Parish Office to schedule the Baptism. and provide us with the Godparent Attestation Form.
Children Kindergarten age and older must fulfill the above requirements AND meet with the appropriate religious education supervisor for their grade.
Parents of the child to be baptized who are unmarried or were married outside the Catholic Church and who wish to be married in the Church, please email Deacon Tony.
