Godparents 101
Tonight I had to go to a Baptism class at church, in preparation for the weighty responsibility of becoming Noah's godmother on Sunday. The class was honestly more interesting and useful than I had expected. It was set up almost boot camp style, with the priest turning to each of us unexpectedly and shouting things like "You find out your godson has been skipping CCD. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?" The best part was the pop quiz/obstacle course at the end of the class, where each of us had to run through the classroom protecting a plastic baby doll as Father Ken (dressed as the devil) tried to capture its soul and damn it to an eternity in hell.
Just kidding. Actually the class was run by a very nice elderly man from the parish, who told stories about being born again from above and giving children the gift of eternal life, and read from the scriptures in Greek. Then we watched a 15-minute film from the early 80's called "Baptizing Your Baby", featuring many people with horrible hair, narrated and presided over by a super gay priest. Then we went home.
Just kidding. Actually the class was run by a very nice elderly man from the parish, who told stories about being born again from above and giving children the gift of eternal life, and read from the scriptures in Greek. Then we watched a 15-minute film from the early 80's called "Baptizing Your Baby", featuring many people with horrible hair, narrated and presided over by a super gay priest. Then we went home.
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posted by BeeKay at 12:11 AM
2 Comments:
Except for the part about the supergay priest, I like your version of the boot camp better.
At my nephew's baptism, the super gay priest spoke at length about the history of each part of the ceremony, and there was somthing about anointing roman soldiers with oil, and then the next thing we all knew he was sweating and fanning himself and had to sit down for a minute. And then when they asked the godparents (Trish and my dad) if they rejected satan and all his works, there was a disturbing pause, and you could just see the two of them thinking to themselves, "ALL of his works...?"
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