BAPTISM CEREMONY CLAYNN CLARA RODRIGUES d/o Brando/Derina Rodrigues, Dandeavado Chinchinim will join the community of Catholics on 12/5/2013 at 11 a.m ,at Our Lady of Hope Church, Chinchinim. Reception at Soco`s Creative Farm, Chinchinim, at 12.30 , sharp Wishing the child all the best in life, good health,and God`s blessings to grow up in the light of God and to be pride of all concerned. Congratulations to the parents and God parents Thoughts to ponder on Batism ceremony The Catholics are proud and happy to welcome a new entrant to the community. The whole community should participate willingly in the religious ceremony through confession and receiving the Eucharist. The ceremony gives specific identity to the individual, that is, the child will be so named and known as, from that date only. since before that the child is nameless individual .It is the first certificate ever the child receives. But the church does not issue any such a document for record I donated to Sirlim chapel special certificates for those who would desire them.The date of baptism is rarely known and remembered. Earlier the baptism ceremony used to be after 7 days from the date of birth not any more. It is only important and demanded at the time of confirmation and marriage. Normally it is the first grand, public function of the new born, but the day is never ever celebrated hereafter nor even remembered. The significance is lost as the most important day, One would really expect the God Parents, at least to remember and remind the child yearly and be a part of little joyous occasion. It would be in fitness of things to publicly announce on the invitation, the names of God Parents. It is a custom and tradition with some to include the second name of one of the God parent. The baptism ceremony makes the issue of at lest one God parents as compulsory. The religious ceremony and celebrations has no personal meaning to the child at that age .The descent of the Holy Spirit at Baptism makes the child as the temple of God. Consequently kissing the innocent, holy child, holding and touching the child after baptism is being actually in the presence of God and being closest to God as humanly possible
