joasia wrote:I read that Chrismation will rectify an un-Canonical baptism. It will breath life into a dead form. I don't remember where I read this.
But, a second baptism is not required if it was done with triple immersion in the name of the HOLY TRINITY, the first time.
The reception of papist members into the Orthodox Church should be baptised(immersed), in these days, because they have adopted the sprinkling and not kept the tradition of the triple immersion. But, in the earlier centuries, they were still using the method of triple immersion.
While it is true that Holy Chrism may be used, this is what is said in CANON XLVI (46) of the 85 Apostolic Canons:
We order any Bishop or Priest, that has accepted any heretic’s baptism or sacrifice be deposed; for “what consonance has Christ with Belial? Or what part has the believer with an unbeliever?”
Interpretation
It is necessary for us Orthodox Christians to shun heretics and the ceremonies of heretics. The heretics ought rather to be criticized and admonished by Bishops and Priests in the hope of their apprehending and returning from their deception. And even more, the present Canon prescribes that if any Bishop or Priest shall accept a heretic’s baptism as right and true, or any of their ceremonies, it is ordered that he be deposed. For what consonance has Christ with the Devil? Or what portion hath the believer with an unbeliever? Those who accept the doings of heretics either themselves entertain similar views to theirs or at any rate they lack an eagerness to free them from their misbelief. For how can those who acquiesce in their ceremonies criticize them with the view of persuading them to give up their misbelief and deceptive heresy?