Baptism and confirmation at UCU

I think it’s pretty cool that at tonight’s chapel service, four people were baptized in advance of their confirmation next week (and I assume more will be confirmed).

The interesting part for me was that one was a new baptism, and the other three were conditional baptisms: they either could not remember whether they had been baptized, or the information to confirm the baptism wasn’t there. The chaplain explained that he (and the priests he called at the home parishes) went to great lengths to determine whether the people had been baptized previously; the conditional baptism isn’t taken lightly. But baptism is a requirement for confirmation, hence the conditional baptism.