When a baby was taken to be baptized, the Padrinos of the baby would say to the parents of the baby after they came back from Church:
The parents of the baby would say:
Recibemos esta prenda amada
Que de la iglesia salio
Con los santos sacramentos Y el agua que recibio
Interior of St. Anthony’s Church, Father Smith officiating
(Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USW3-018015C January 1943; John Collier).
Padrinos (sponsors):
Receive this beloved jewel
Who from the Church has departed With the blessed sacrament
And the holy water, the name is .
Parents:
We accept this beloved jewel
Who from the Church has departed Loving received the blessed
Sacrament and the Holy Water, thank you.