re: Parrain Baws

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You could let your adult son be his own man?

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My adult son seeks my advice. He doesn’t have to take it. And I prefer not to talk out of my arse.

The only things out after Midnight is……….Whores and Drug Dealers

My Godparents lived in Chalmette and we moved across the lake when I was a baby. I got gifts for Christmas and Birthdays for years. I never met them. But I sent a letter of gratitude and told them how grateful I was. Tell your son if he takes the title, he should encourage the kid to attend church and remember him on special occasions.

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Can y’all help me help him?

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I take your question as serious. You are right to ask and hope for a serious opinion.

I’m not Roman Catholic either, but in our prayer book/missal whatever you want to call it, the obligations laid upon the Godparents are, in some ways, as serious, or maybe more serious than those laid on the parents.

I wouldn’t imagine my Roman brothers’ Sacrament of Baptism is much different.

And it’s definitely not just for the unhappy event of the parents’s untimely early death.

In the baptismal service, even the congregation witnessing are presumed to do all in their power to assist the parents and Godparents in fulfilling their solemn duty.

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When the Office is used for Children, the Minister shall speak unto the Godfathers and Godmothers on this wise.

DEARLY beloved, ye have brought this Child here to be baptized; ye have prayed that our Lord Jesus Christ would vouchsafe to receive him, to release him from sin, to sanctify him with the Holy Ghost, to give him the kingdom of heaven, and everlasting life.

Dost thou, therefore, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the sinful desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them?
Answer. I renounce them all; and, by God’s help, will endeavor not to follow, nor be led by them.

Minister. Dost thou believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith, as contained in the Apostles’ Creed?
Answer. I do.

Minister. Wilt thou be baptized in this Faith? Answer. That is my desire.

Minister. Wilt thou then obediently keep God’s holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of thy life?
Answer. I will, by God’s help.

Minister. Having now, in the name of this Child, made these promises, will ye also on your part take heed
that he learn the Creed,
the Lord’s Prayer,
and the Ten Commandments,
and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe, to his soul’s health?
Answer. I will, by God’s help.

Minister. Will ye take heed that this Child, so soon as sufficiently instructed, be brought to the Bishop to be confirmed by him?
Answer. I will, God being my helper.

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1928 Book of Common Prayer Full Sacrament of Baptism

Strip club BJ 21rst birthday…..

He's the one who steps in if the mom and dad die. That includes later on.

My mom passed and my nanny is my son's maw maw as a result.