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Hello, I'm currently 37 weeks along and was asked by a sibling and a friend a couple months ago if I wanted to have a shower and if I did, they were willing to throw one for me. To make the story short, Most of my family really doesn't get along with my husband and doesn't show much interest in our soon to be born baby. So, instead of having a shower we want to have a public buffee/lunch get together, where it's not just the women/girls that are allowed to come, but the spouses to come as well too. Also, since we've got the majority of the baby items, we aren't requesting gifts...
So in an invitation, how would this be worded? It's not a baby shower, but an invitation to help celebrate the life of our miracle. Meals will be on the house, and everyone would be responsible for their own beer tab.
Is this appropriate to do? A good idea? Just curios...
Any advice is welcome, thank you
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I would like it - a friend of mine had a dedication ceremony and made mention that the invitees were an important part of their community and that they were dedicating themselves, in front of family and friends, to raise their child in a positive, loving home yada yada yada. Theirs had a nice religious tone to it but if you are not into that you can still tweak it to your beliefs our desires on what you want for this child. If you aren't requesting gifts or cash and are providing food - your an A One host in my eyes.
I would like it - a friend of mine had a dedication ceremony and made mention that the invitees were an important part of their community and that they were dedicating themselves, in front of family and friends, to raise their child in a positive, loving home yada yada yada. Theirs had a nice religious tone to it but if you are not into that you can still tweak it to your beliefs our desires on what you want for this child. If you aren't requesting gifts or cash and are providing food - your an A One host in my eyes.
confirmation questions?
Morgan N
ok im writing a paper because im making my confirmation very soon. and im just looking for ideas to put in it. i also need to know what kind of grace do you get when you make your confirmation. like when your baptised you recieve sanctifying and stuff. yeah, help if you want/can. thanks
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ConfirmationâIs It a Christian Requirement?
âConfirmation is the sacrament which confers on the baptized Christian the full perfection of Christian life, making him spiritually an adult, a soldier, and a witness of Christ.ââThe Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home.
MOST Protestants reject the idea that confirmation is a sacrament. However, the 13th-century Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas wrote that âconfirmation is a final perfecting of the sacrament of baptism.â Either way, the questions arise: Did the earliest Christians practice confirmation? Is that ceremonial act a Christian requirement today?
âAbsolutely nothing in the Gospel indicates that Jesus Himself instituted the Sacrament of Confirmation,â admits the New Catholic Encyclopedia. So why did church teachers later promote the idea that following baptism, a second rite, which may include anointing with oil and laying on of hands, was needed to make the person a fuller member of the church?
How Did Confirmation Begin?
Infant baptism was one of the key factors that led to the need for another sacrament. âAware of the problems caused by baptising babies,â says the book Christianity, âchurches . . . remind those who have been baptised of what this means by âconfirmingâ them later on in life.â Does confirmation truly remind them of what baptism means, or does it obscure the truth about baptism?
The fact is that infant baptism finds no support in the Scriptures. Sprinkling water on a baby, for example, does not free the baby from original sin; only faith in the ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus can do that. (John 3:16, 36; 1 John 1:7) Water baptism is an outward symbol that the one being baptized has made a complete dedication through Jesus to do the will of God. Water baptism is for disciplesââbelieversâânot infants.âMatthew 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12.
âWhere did Baptism end and where did Confirmation begin?â asks the New Catholic Encyclopedia. It answers: âPerhaps we should not try to distinguish too precisely, for we are dealing with a single rite in the early Church.â Yes, in the first century, the âsingle riteâ that brought full membership in the Christian congregation was baptism.âActs 2:41, 42.
Is the ceremony of confirmation, with its imposition of hands, needed before one can receive the holy spirit? No. In the early Christian congregation, the laying on of hands following baptism normally was to make special appointments or to impart miraculous gifts of the spirit. These gifts passed away with the death of the apostles. (1Â Corinthians 13:1, 8-10) And the laying on of hands is often linked, not with water baptism, but with specific tasks to be done in connection with the Christian missionary activity. (Acts 6:1-6; 13:1-3) Thus, the idea that confirmation continues such apostolic laying on of hands and is, as Basics of the Faith: A Catholic Catechism says, a âsacrament that changes a person in so profound a way that it can be received only once,â does not stand up to scrutiny.
The apostle Paul warned about deviation from basic Bible truth: âThe time is sure to come when, far from being content with sound teaching, people will be avid for the latest novelty . . . and then, instead of listening to the truth, they will turn to myths.â (2 Timothy 4:3, 4, The Jerusalem Bible)
If you need more information on this or any subject please just ask. gemhandy@hotmail.com
ConfirmationâIs It a Christian Requirement?
âConfirmation is the sacrament which confers on the baptized Christian the full perfection of Christian life, making him spiritually an adult, a soldier, and a witness of Christ.ââThe Catholic Encyclopedia for School and Home.
MOST Protestants reject the idea that confirmation is a sacrament. However, the 13th-century Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas wrote that âconfirmation is a final perfecting of the sacrament of baptism.â Either way, the questions arise: Did the earliest Christians practice confirmation? Is that ceremonial act a Christian requirement today?
âAbsolutely nothing in the Gospel indicates that Jesus Himself instituted the Sacrament of Confirmation,â admits the New Catholic Encyclopedia. So why did church teachers later promote the idea that following baptism, a second rite, which may include anointing with oil and laying on of hands, was needed to make the person a fuller member of the church?
How Did Confirmation Begin?
Infant baptism was one of the key factors that led to the need for another sacrament. âAware of the problems caused by baptising babies,â says the book Christianity, âchurches . . . remind those who have been baptised of what this means by âconfirmingâ them later on in life.â Does confirmation truly remind them of what baptism means, or does it obscure the truth about baptism?
The fact is that infant baptism finds no support in the Scriptures. Sprinkling water on a baby, for example, does not free the baby from original sin; only faith in the ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus can do that. (John 3:16, 36; 1 John 1:7) Water baptism is an outward symbol that the one being baptized has made a complete dedication through Jesus to do the will of God. Water baptism is for disciplesââbelieversâânot infants.âMatthew 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12.
âWhere did Baptism end and where did Confirmation begin?â asks the New Catholic Encyclopedia. It answers: âPerhaps we should not try to distinguish too precisely, for we are dealing with a single rite in the early Church.â Yes, in the first century, the âsingle riteâ that brought full membership in the Christian congregation was baptism.âActs 2:41, 42.
Is the ceremony of confirmation, with its imposition of hands, needed before one can receive the holy spirit? No. In the early Christian congregation, the laying on of hands following baptism normally was to make special appointments or to impart miraculous gifts of the spirit. These gifts passed away with the death of the apostles. (1Â Corinthians 13:1, 8-10) And the laying on of hands is often linked, not with water baptism, but with specific tasks to be done in connection with the Christian missionary activity. (Acts 6:1-6; 13:1-3) Thus, the idea that confirmation continues such apostolic laying on of hands and is, as Basics of the Faith: A Catholic Catechism says, a âsacrament that changes a person in so profound a way that it can be received only once,â does not stand up to scrutiny.
The apostle Paul warned about deviation from basic Bible truth: âThe time is sure to come when, far from being content with sound teaching, people will be avid for the latest novelty . . . and then, instead of listening to the truth, they will turn to myths.â (2 Timothy 4:3, 4, The Jerusalem Bible)
If you need more information on this or any subject please just ask. gemhandy@hotmail.com
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