Christening Gowns
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These garments are placed on the newly-baptized immediately after coming up out of he waters of baptism (the Orthodox baptize by immersion, even in the case of infant baptism)
- As the robe is being placed on the new Christian, the priest says the prayer: "The servant of God, N., is clothed with the robe of righteousness; in the Agname of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
- Amen." and the choir sings: "Vouchsafe unto me the robe of light, O Thou who clothest Thyself with light as with a garment, Christ our God, plenteous in mercy."
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In the Roman Catholic Church, most of those born into the faith are baptized as infants |
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| The traditional clothing for a child being baptised into the Roman Catholic faith is a christening gown, a very long, white infants' garment now made especially for the ceremony of christening and usually only worn then |
| They are in fact the URL normal, or at least "best", outer clothing of Western babies until about the 19th century. |