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Intention of Receiving the Baptism by Adult

Summary/Abstract: As far as the reception of baptism is concerned, everyone who has attained the use of reason has the rights and responsibilities of an adult. ose who are not of sound mind, or incapable of personal responsibility, are considered to be infants. An adult cannot be val- idly baptized without wanting to be baptized. A person who attained the use of reason and subsequently lost it, must have made while rational the intention of being baptized in order to receive validly the sacrament. is manifestation of will constitutes a requirement ad va- liditatem of celebration of baptism. Most of all canonists maintained that a habitual intention is su cient: that is, intention once given is withdrawn, and current or virtual intention is, therefore, unnecessary. Some of them added that it is also su cient for the intention to be implicit, e.g. contained in the explicit intention of doing whatever God or Jesus wants.

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