Entries from September 2007

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Baptism News: Is it Batter Up or Baptism Up?!

Baptism at the Cove

 

 

Thousands filled the stands at Coveleski Stadium Sunday, but it wasn’t for a baseball game, it was for a baptism!
Friends and family got to watch as their loved ones got baptized on the baseball field.
Individual names were called and people jumped into one of the three pools on the field.
They then ran [...]

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Baptism News: Baby baptised in 143 year old dress

TRADITIONS & FAMILY HEIRLOOMS CONTINUE TO REMAIN IMPORTANT
By Stephen White 08/09/2007
Baby Jessica Power will be wrapped in 143 years of history when she becomes the 32nd relative to wear the same christening gown.
The seven-month-old will be baptised in the dress made by cotton mill worker Eleanor Thornber in 1864 for her first child Isabel.
It’s [...]

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Baptism News: Godparents’ role evolves

CUSTOM FOCUSES ON COMPANIONSHIP
Sunday, September 9, 2007
By Vivi Hoang
The Tennessean

What started out more than 1,500 years ago as a simple task — presenting a child for baptism — has become a revered but blurry mix of religious and secular duty.
What does a godparent do? In most cases, whatever they, and their godchild’s parents, think best. [...]

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Baptism News: A new addition to the Hemmingway family generates new words to live by

E.P. Hemingway is in the house
Posted by tmatt
It took several days to get the basic facts together with a photograph, but we can pass along the happy news that the Divine Ms. M.Z. Hemingway (and hubby) are the proud parents of a baby Lutheran.
We have gone back and forth on whether their daughter’s name needs [...]

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Baptism News: Baptismal gown serves new generation

Wednesday, August 15, 2007
 
Rena A. Koontz and Jesse Tinsley
Plain Dealer Reporters
Three-month-old David J. Telban Jr. was baptized in old clothes.
The hand-me-down baptismal gown is a right of passage in his family. It was made 100 years ago in Yugoslavia by his great-grandmother, Mary Telban, when she was 16. Her first two children didn’t live to [...]