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JillD
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Posted: Wed Apr 4th, 2007 08:30 am |
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This is fine, but I learned last night that I will need to be conditionally baptized along with my other sacraments at Easter Vigil. We need to tell Father our baptismal name and our confirmation as those sacraments are administered and I'm wondering what is appropriate.
I've thought about just using my Christian name - Jill - but I like the idea of using my saint's name, too. I've chosen Peter. Can I be "Jill St. Peter"?
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beachmoss
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Posted: Thu Apr 5th, 2007 10:04 pm |
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Jill,
When I was brought into the Church I used my given name, Elizabeth, as my baptismal name. Then I chose Mary as my confirmation name.
My children, baptised as infants, were baptised with their given names. They will choose a saint's name for their confirmation. In fact my youngest was not given a saint's name at all. She is named for my grandmother and grandfather. And believe me, if Baptists recognized saints my Grandma would be one!
I hope this helps!
God bless you! And welcome to the family!!
Beth
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CajunRick
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Posted: Thu Apr 5th, 2007 10:51 pm |
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beachmoss wrote: And believe me, if Baptists recognized saints my Grandma would be one!
Fortunately, God doesn't pay attention to denominations! God cares what's in our hearts, not what pew we sit in.
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GordonH
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Posted: Tue Apr 10th, 2007 07:44 am |
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beachmoss wrote: And believe me, if Baptists recognized saints my Grandma would be one!
Well actually they do revere exceptional Christians of days gone by which is really what saints are. They just don't (for some weird reason) revere any of the ones prior to the reformation.
I bet you have heard the stories of Wesley, John Newton and CH Spurgeon, DL Moody, and many others told and used in the same way as the lives of the saints in the catholic church. They are used as examples to us of how we should live, so it is a bit hypocritical for a baptist to say that they don't believe in saints in general.
In Pentecostalism you get even closer to the catholic tradition. I have heard it said that Benny Hinn somehow invokes Kathryn Kuhlmann and prays near her grave regularly.
I am not saying these things are right or the true way of doing things, but I think there is a lot of hypocricy in anti catholic rhetoric when the protestants actually do very similar things to those they claim are bad.
Sorry, this sort of thing does get me upset!
How often has someone passed you the communion cup with the words "the body of Christ" and you want to say to them "no actually it isn't and you don't believe it is either so why are you saying that?".
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beachmoss
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Posted: Tue Apr 10th, 2007 01:14 pm |
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GordonH wrote: How often has someone passed you the communion cup with the words "the body of Christ" and you want to say to them "no actually it isn't and you don't believe it is either so why are you saying that?".
I didn't realize they did this. But then it's been ages since I've been to a protestant communion service. (Except a Mormon service about three years ago.)
I did get a good chuckle Saturday. We drove by a Pentecostal Church that was having a huge Easter egg hunt. The sign said that "Saint Peter Rabbit" would be there. I've yet to ask my friend who attends that church when they began to allow St. Peter in.
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Tue Apr 10th, 2007 09:59 pm |
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beachmoss wrote:The sign said that "Saint Peter Rabbit" would be there. I've yet to ask my friend who attends that church when they began to allow St. Peter in.
You may find that this was dreamed up by an ex-Catholic.  But then he’s only a rabbit and only comes around at Easter to lay eggs on the church lawn, so it’s not such a big deal after all. I should think that St. Peter would have more important things to do than lay eggs.
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