Dear Betty —
Be glad that the child is baptized!
and pray that the grace in the child
will also work in the parents.
What the grandmother did was illicit
(contrary to the rules) but not invalid.
She most certainly did wrong, not
just by breaking the rules, but by
violating the parental rights. They
alone have the right to give consent
to Baptism in the name of the child.
Mary Ann
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