What does a Christening entail?

jtr2803

pimento wrote: »

I'm sure they won't want you there with your long face. Tell them you're busy.
Are you like this all the time?

Er....like what all the time?

Sorry, not sure if you noticed but this appears to be a religious ceremony for a child who will catergorically NOT be brought up in a religious way so I apologise if I find my partaking in it, and the ceremony itself, highly hypocritcal. I appreciate that others have faith and don't have any issue with that, but I do have issues with people who choose to have 'faith' when it suits them.

I think Damian is a little harsh but it cetainly has crossed my mind to dip my hand in the holy water just to check it doesn't burn! :rotfl:

inkie

How it will be will depend upon the denomination, the personality of the minister etc. I am a minister and I do all our Christenings as part of the normal service, but I adapt it to make it appealing recognising that there will be people there who arn't used to the whole church thing. Our service would last about 1-1/2 hours in total, and we use multimedia etc....

If it's at 1pm, it sound like a seperate service, and will last about 20-30mins.

pimento

jtr2803 wrote: »

Er....like what all the time?

Sorry, not sure if you noticed but this appears to be a religious ceremony for a child who will catergorically NOT be brought up in a religious way so I apologise if I find my partaking in it, and the ceremony itself, highly hypocritcal. I appreciate that others have faith and don't have any issue with that, but I do have issues with people who choose to have 'faith' when it suits them.

It's none of your business what they do with regards to their child. If it all offends you so much, stop clenching your buttocks togther about it all and just. don't. go.

jtr2803

pimento wrote: »

It's none of your business what they do with regards to their child. If it all offends you so much, stop clenching your buttocks togther about it all and just. don't. go.

Quite right, still entitled to my opinion though aren't i?

Sammy85_2

Ive been to several baptisms now.

One family one was an afternoon service and there were 4 other children being baptised together (unrelated). Was strange there being lots of other familys there, church was packed. Took around 2hrs start to finish and had hymns etc. Afterwards we went to a social club for drinks and a buffet lunch.

Another was an afternoon service just the one child and family only, church was pretty packed though. Again, hymns but took around an hour at the most. Afterwards we went to the childs house for a bbq/buffet.

And a couple of months ago we had a baptism at our church as part of the regular sunday 9.30am service. Was lovely for us all to meet the child and her family. It lasted around 1.5hrs including the regular church service with communion and hymns. We had never met the family at regular church services before or since, its sad but hopefully one day they will come back again.

neverdespairgirl

If I were you, OP, I wouldn't guess - ask. It could be part of a normal Sunday service, it could be a baptism only. There might or might not be lunch / tea / drinks afterwards. So ask the parents, then you'll know for sure.