Must Dos for Christenings

[Seekrit]

What are the things that have to happen for a christening?

Do you have to pick god parents?
Do you have to regularly attend church?
Do you have to have 2 parents who share a faith?

Hmm, what things do you have to do?

[mummy short legs]

You don't need to go to church at all. Though some do ask you to attend a evening to do the paperwork side of things and why are you there for it. It is up to you on who you pick to be god parents and Some churches will ask that one god parent is catholic as well as a parent too. You just need to check with the parish when you book it in.

Tennille:tree:

[AimeeB]

:wave: Hi we had our kids baptised in the local Uniting Church,not for religious reasons but as we had married there due to it being a beautiful old church and DH background church of england and mine catholic.Neither of us are religious and we sort of had it done more of tradition than anything.At the Uniting it has a really funky reverend and he makes it short and sweet-not to religious.We still had godparents and we weren't required to attend church at all,just to make a donation in the box at the end.They just sent some paperwork for the details and rang us a couple of days before to doublecheck everything.The thing we liked was that he stated at the end that the child is now baptised into the house of God as such and is free to choose whatever religion they please.Not sure if all Uniting Churches take the same stance or he is just a more with-it reverend?

[AVR]

I think it depends:detective: - I am christening my bump in a catholic church and I have to do a course thing,start reg attending church and one of the god parents has to be catholic.:thumbsup:

[veve]

hmmm step one .. invite precious bubhub friends ..

step two - ooh .. ok .. forgot - organise a church and time/ date THEN invite precious bubhub friends .. :laughing:

xxx
Jen

[Mamaduke]

Another thing, and I don't know if it also applies in other Christian churches, but as Catholics we had to supply a white candle and a white stoll (for the baby to wear) for the Baptism.

[Mariposa]

we have baptised all our girls, linas christening is this sunday.

all we had to do was choose the godparents, phone the church that you want, go in and talk about what readings you want done. the church that we are using will supply a white candle.

[Seekrit]

So you do have to choose god parents in a christian church? (most likely Church of Christ)

Hmm, I knew I should have left this up to the one of us that actually has some sort of faith..

[Oscar's mum]

So you do have to choose god parents in a christian church? (most likely Church of Christ)


You don't have to have god parents at all if you don't want;)