10-24-2012, 09:15 AM
Thing 1 and I went to his first Confirmation class last night. The process is so different then when I was a kid. Back then it was classes once a week with homework. Now they call it Generations of Faith and the classes are once a month and a parent must attend.
Last nights class was about Baptism. It was really very interesting how a Baptism is much like the funeral mass. A baby is blessed with holy water and his parents and God parents make the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead at the alter. The baby is taken down the aisle to the baptism fountain where you enter the chapel. During a funeral when the casket is brought into the church, the coffin is blessed with holy water before it's brought up the aisle to the alter. I just thought it was kinda cool how they tied that all together. Of course it got me thinking about LC and my brother and funerals and I got a little emotional but managed to keep it in.
Any of you guys have kids going for their Confirmation?
Last nights class was about Baptism. It was really very interesting how a Baptism is much like the funeral mass. A baby is blessed with holy water and his parents and God parents make the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead at the alter. The baby is taken down the aisle to the baptism fountain where you enter the chapel. During a funeral when the casket is brought into the church, the coffin is blessed with holy water before it's brought up the aisle to the alter. I just thought it was kinda cool how they tied that all together. Of course it got me thinking about LC and my brother and funerals and I got a little emotional but managed to keep it in.
Any of you guys have kids going for their Confirmation?
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