Acts 16:33 (WEB)
He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
Catechism · 2
“Always, Baptism is seen as connected with faith: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household," St. Paul declared to his jailer in Philippi. and the narrative continues, the jailer "was baptized at once, with all his family."” — Catechism footnote: Acts 16:31-33.
“There is explicit testimony to this practice from the second century on, and it is quite possible that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole "households" received baptism, infants may also have been baptized.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 16:15, 33; 18:8; 1 Cor 1:16; CDF, instruction, Pastoralis actio: AAS 72 (1980) 1137-1156.
Fathers and councils · 1
“We read also in the gospel how the Lord spent whole nights in prayer and how the apostles when they were shut up in prison kept vigil all night long, singing their psalms until the earth quaked, and the keeper of the prison believed, and the magistrates and citizens were filled with terror.” — editor's note: Acts xvi. 25–38.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Catechism §1252.
Cited together in Catechism §1252.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.