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Order for baptizing a female, who shall be stood to the left, and the priest shall breathe upon her face, saying: Depart, unclean spirit, and give place to the coming Holy Spirit, the Comforter.
Then he shall give her a name, and having made a cross with his thumb on her forehead once, he shall say thus: N. Receive the seal of God the Father almighty, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Prayer
Almighty everlasting God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, deign to look upon this Your servant N., whom You have deigned to call to the rudiments of the faith. Expel from her all blindness of heart. Break all the snares of Satan by which she has been bound. Open to her, Lord, the door of Your piety, so that, imbued with the sign of wisdom, she may be free from the stench of all evil desires and may rejoice in the sweet odor of Your precepts, serving You in Your church and progressing from day to day, so that she may be made fit to approach the grace of Your baptism, having received the medicine. Through Christ.
Here, if the salt has not been exorcised, then it shall be exorcised as above for males. And once it is exorcised, the female shall be named by the godparents, and the priest shall place some of that salt into her mouth and say: N. Receive the salt of wisdom, made propitious for you unto eternal life. Amen.
The Lord be with you. Let us pray.
God of our fathers, God, the creator of every creature, we humbly entreat You that You deign to look propitiously upon this Your servant, N.