Do you know the date of your Christening?

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Is there a plenary indulgence available on the anniversary of your baptism?
 
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Do you know yours, without asking or checking?
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Yes, however it is not in my tradition to celebrate it, but rather the name day of the saint with your name in common. Another question can be asked though: do you know the date of your Confirmation (or Chrismation) and first Holy Communion? Christian Initiation is incomplete until the third is received.
 
November 20, 2019. I am now a proper baby Catholic awaiting Confirmation at Easter.
 
Yes I do! But only because I looked at my baptismal certificate recently for my upcoming wedding. So that’s not completely fair. Last Sunday our priest also mentioned the same thing in his homily.

I was baptized on the feast of St. Stephen, which is pretty cool!
 
A priest told us once that our date of baptism should be as important as our birthday.

I know I was 2 years old and it was in April of 1954.
I would have to look up the date on my baptism record.

Last Sunday, the priest once again brought up the importance of when we were baptized - even when we were conceived and he proceeded to explain the difficulty of the sperm reaching the egg.
 
No it wasn’t a direct quote. I made that clear in my post.

You ask if it useful to argue with a point that wasn’t actually made. I am not arguing with it. In fact, I made it clear that this a feeling I got from what was said. It’s what I thought he might be implicating, but I also stated that I cannot know if this was what he meant because I don’t know his thought process.

My post wasn’t focussed on discussing whether the priest said celebrating your birthday but not the day you were baptised was egotistical, it was asking if people know their baptism date and seeing if they believe it is important to know/celebrate it.
 
I don’t celebrate it… but I know it.
Born on Tuesday, Baptized on Sunday. It’s always made it easy to remember, even as a child. I’ve always known my Baptism date. LOL.
 
I do. It was my parents’ 7th wedding anniversary. I was 11 days old.
 
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I do, but I was also 19.

I sat at a Catholic speaker one time who went off on “how do non-Catholics know the exact day they accepted Jesus as their savior” He schpeiled on it for about 20 min…The entire time in the back of my mind all I could hear was the Jake From StateFarm commercial “Well, it was part of our baptismal promise”. 🤷‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️
 
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There is a plenary indulgence attached to renewing one’s Baptismal promise.
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I didn’t know that! And I ALWAYS celebrate my Baptism and Chrismation (Confirmation). I can’t forget mine because that day Pope Paul VI issued the Credo of the People of God. 😊
 
You poor thing! Can you contact the diocese/Eparchy where you were born? Maybe they would have a copy of your record.
 
Then you’re in good company with St. Padre Pio. He was born and baptized on May 25 (forget the year), the Feast of the Third Finding of the Head of St. John the Baptist. AND - he died on the Feast of the Conception of St. John the Baptist. Providence!
 
I was originally christened in a protestant church which isn’t there anymore and have no idea which denomination it was.
 
@Margaret_Ann

I have never heard of the Third Finding of the Head of
St. John the Baptist. What is that?!
 
One’s Baptismal Certificate should show the date, and that can be obtained from the Parish in which one was baptized, if that is known.

In my family, our photo album shows me in my Christening gown on my grandmother’s lap, and it tells the date of the Christening in the caption.

There are ways to find this information out. Since most of us were baptized as infants, it’s not reasonable to expect us to know it off the tops of our heads, without first looking it up.
 
I’m an RCIA Catholic. I was raised as a Baptist. So I didn’t receive baptism until I was able to understand certain principles. I must have been 9 or so. But I can’t remember the year, let alone the date. I’d have to look up the letter that states my date of baptism. How sad is that?
 
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