Rejoice with me please!

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A small thing, but my baptism certificate went missing, and I shall obviously need it as I enter the church next year. I have enormous anxiety about the telephone, and the idea of phoning up my old Anglican parish to ask for another was literally keeping me awake at night. I have been praying for weeks about it and there was no sign, it had been in one particular place and simply vanished. I dedicated a few rosaries over the past few days as RCIA has started again, and lo, yesterday I found it in a completely different place, slotted underneath a bookcase in another room. I would never have looked there in a month of Sundays.

So I am feeling a bit like the woman in the parable who found her lost coin! I thought I’d share as good news is always worth it, and I am so, so relieved.
 
I’m so glad that you found it! 🙂

It’s such a relief when we find something important that we need like this.
 
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I’m so glad that you found it! 🙂

It’s such a relief when we find something important that we need like this.
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Yes! It does feel like a little miracle when a lost thing is causing a lot of trouble, and then suddenly it appears without having to go the further trouble of replacing it. 😊

In addition to the trouble saved, there is also the sentimental significance of the original certificate of your own baptism, as a baby I presume, in an Anglican Church? 🙂

Was it one of the lovely old medieval English churches?
 
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Yes, a beautiful sandstone church, but I wasn’t a baby, I was 18. Decided Christianity was for me, walked into the most local church, which just happened to be during Evensong, and said to the vicar “I’d like to be baptised please?” I think he was probably as shocked as my mother was when I told her.
 
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Yes, a beautiful sandstone church, but I wasn’t a baby, I was 18. Decided Christianity was for me, walked into the most local church, which just happened to be during Evensong, and said to the vicar “I’d like to be baptised please?” I think he was probably as shocked as my mother was when I told her.
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What a wonderful story! I’m a former Anglican myself, and miss much of the form and buildings, but have never had any regrets. I’ve visited the Anglican Ordinariate, and may return in time.

Thankyou for the reminder of how blessed we all are by our baptism. If it were in a beautiful church, then great, but if not then it was still the most wonderful moment of our life.
 
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