My little guy was baptized this past weekend, such a big day!
When did you baptize your little ones, did you do it in the first few months, or did you wait till after they were 1 or older?
Congratulations to Carson! I am Catholic so we did P's when he was a few months old.
For us, the infant baptism is more for the parents, grandparents and godparents (if using). They ask if you will raise the child in the church and teach him/her the beliefs. You go through confirmation later when you have made the decision for yourself. You can be baptized again then or just the verbal confirmation.
Congrats to you and your family!!!! I'm sorry your family wasn't able to make it.
We too, once the child gets of age, and maturity get confirmed.
big C got baptized at 9 months, little C was right at a year.
I haven't had any of my kids baptized, and I was raised Catholic. I actually tried to get my oldest baptized, but my church refused to do it. I chose my brother and my best friend as godparents. My brother is Catholic and was married in a Catholic church. My best friend, the same. However, my brother doesn't go to church regularly, and my best friend had just moved to Florida and didn't have a church yet. My church refused to accept them as godparents because neither of them could provide a letter from their current church stating that they attend church regularly, are baptized and confirmed Catholics, and they participate in church activities. I was completely astounded!! The only way they would baptize her was if I picked other godparents that could provide all the information they required or the church appointed godparents to my child that were members of that church.
I was so angry I haven't been to church, other than a wedding or a funeral, since then. Instead, I had an old friend of my father'swho is a baptist minisiter drive in from Pittsburgh and bless my daughter at 6 months old. I didn't have the money to bring him in when I had my second. I've been considering what to do now that I have my third and he is already 9 months old.
Frankly, though, I don't have any desire to go back to the Catholic church after that. The godparents I picked for both my second daughter and my son are not Catholic, so there's no way the church would accept them, and I'm not chosing other people to meet some silly paper requirement.
In my eyes, if I choose someone because I know, if it ever happened that my husband and I were both gone, that person will raise my child/children with me in their mind and heart, that's what matters to me. I don't care it they are catholic, baptist or atheist! And it shouldn't matter to my church either. As long as I feel they are appropriate for my children, that should be the most important thing.
Okay, I will get off of my soapbox! lol Guess this topic hit a nerve! :-)
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- carole76
on Jun. 25, 2012 at 4:26 PM