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the_phoenix
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This Sunday my niece is being baptized and I’m to be the godmother … if all goes smoothly, that is! It seems like so many obstacles are cropping up at the last minute, and after I’d tried so hard to get everything in order way ahead of time on my end of things.
Firstly when I called this week to make sure everything was all arranged with the church, I was told that the lady at the rectory had informed the mother that she should simply “Catch the priest before he goes out the door after Mass and he’ll do the Baptism.”
Maybe that’s how they do things in some parishes, but the way I’ve been used to seeing it is that the priest knows beforehand, that the family sits together in the front of the church, and that sometimes the priest even asks the congregation to pray for the one or ones who are going to be newly baptized right after Mass.
Then tonight I received a phone call telling me I needed to mail my “letter of recommendation to be a godmother” from my parish to my niece’s parish! Well, the good news is that way back in February I obtained said letter from my rectory. However, at that point, when I asked what I was supposed to do with the letter, I was given the impression that I just show up the day of the Baptism, letter in hand. Thing is, I now have to mail it last minute from Ohio to New York and hope it makes it in time, when I could’ve mailed it two months ago if I’d only known!
Fortunately at least my computer copier cooperated and so I’ve made a few copies before I send off the original into the unknown … I take it that keeping the original and sending a copy would be considered bad form.
Well, when I made a retreat with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist this past December, they would get all excited and even happy when obstacles arose, and say, “We must be making the devil mad, and there must be a lot of graces that God wants to give us, for so many difficulties to be happening.”
And I do happen to think that my soon-to-be little goddaughter is a special one …
Thanks for any prayers!
~~ the phoenix
Firstly when I called this week to make sure everything was all arranged with the church, I was told that the lady at the rectory had informed the mother that she should simply “Catch the priest before he goes out the door after Mass and he’ll do the Baptism.”
Maybe that’s how they do things in some parishes, but the way I’ve been used to seeing it is that the priest knows beforehand, that the family sits together in the front of the church, and that sometimes the priest even asks the congregation to pray for the one or ones who are going to be newly baptized right after Mass.
Then tonight I received a phone call telling me I needed to mail my “letter of recommendation to be a godmother” from my parish to my niece’s parish! Well, the good news is that way back in February I obtained said letter from my rectory. However, at that point, when I asked what I was supposed to do with the letter, I was given the impression that I just show up the day of the Baptism, letter in hand. Thing is, I now have to mail it last minute from Ohio to New York and hope it makes it in time, when I could’ve mailed it two months ago if I’d only known!
Fortunately at least my computer copier cooperated and so I’ve made a few copies before I send off the original into the unknown … I take it that keeping the original and sending a copy would be considered bad form.
Well, when I made a retreat with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist this past December, they would get all excited and even happy when obstacles arose, and say, “We must be making the devil mad, and there must be a lot of graces that God wants to give us, for so many difficulties to be happening.”
And I do happen to think that my soon-to-be little goddaughter is a special one …
Thanks for any prayers!
~~ the phoenix
