tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17699332.post5099124022609912104..comments2023-12-01T01:12:57.912-08:00Comments on MindSieve POSTS: Grateful for the GraceDianna Woolleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11901349180265745138noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17699332.post-88143945849958709312009-05-10T12:01:00.000-07:002009-05-10T12:01:00.000-07:00I was baptised as a baby - I'm sure you know that ...I was baptised as a baby - I'm sure you know that teaching in the Catholic church that if a child dies unbaptised its soul will go to limbo rather than to heaven. (A teaching very recently reversed by the current Pope.)<br /><br />So it was imperative to get babies baptised as quickly as possible.<br /><br />Now logically, the concept of adult baptism makes more sense to me - informed choice. ButTesshttp://www.anchormast.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17699332.post-11361603891036714712009-05-08T12:03:00.000-07:002009-05-08T12:03:00.000-07:00Hi Geezer -
Thanks for your witness to the power...Hi Geezer - <br /><br />Thanks for your witness to the power of baptism and sacred events being taken as that - sacred. Traditions aside, I think re-do events are often powerful glue to hold us together through another, unknown segment of our lives.<br /><br />JG - Congratulations - a comment in the comment box, I am so grateful to see it here and agree that "being marked as Christ's own foreverDianna Woolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901349180265745138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17699332.post-23449035904295506492009-05-07T21:19:00.000-07:002009-05-07T21:19:00.000-07:00Beautiful thoughts! I most remember our children'...Beautiful thoughts! I most remember our children's baptisms - three years in a row. And every time I get to witness another baptism I rejoice in the words "you are marked as Christ's own forever." JGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17699332.post-6045852497810540542009-05-07T19:42:00.000-07:002009-05-07T19:42:00.000-07:00I expect I was baptized as an infant. I have no re...I expect I was baptized as an infant. I have no recollection of it, but perhaps you might recall the event. I know I was baptized as a teenager. It would have been a year or two after Lucy's baptism at age 12. I asked a Methodist minister to conduct the sacrament during a small Sunday evening service that was probably attended only by a few of my peers. The "second" baptism was not in keeping Geezer Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07743039362133956705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17699332.post-46276816785655655292009-05-07T08:45:00.000-07:002009-05-07T08:45:00.000-07:00Hi Lucy,
Can't wait for some good old face-to-fac...Hi Lucy,<br /><br />Can't wait for some good old face-to-face conversation at the end of this month!!<br /><br />Age 12 - I bet it wasn't a re-do, more likely that parents weren't as diligent with their third child. Perhaps not as "scared" with the third child to do everything exactly as their lives had been done when younger. That's only a guess......<br /><br />xoxoDianna Woolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901349180265745138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17699332.post-67823066238038672132009-05-07T07:23:00.000-07:002009-05-07T07:23:00.000-07:00witnessing anything with that kind of commitment a...witnessing anything with that kind of commitment and, yes, grace is a powerful thing.<br /><br />i remember baptism at about the age of 12. was it a "re-do" or perhaps my parents were not as diligent with their third child as they were with their first?Kayce aka lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.com