Today is also Hambet's third birthday in the Church: the anniversary of his baptism.
Eric Johnson of Catholic Light has the picture I wanted, but couldn't find.
Karen Marie chose a very different picture for her Annunciation post at the Anchor Hold. Usually I don't care for that style of art, but this one really stopped me in my tracks -- I was literally staring at it, for a long, long time.
Happy, um, spiritual birthday?, Hambet! So he has the Annunciation and Davey has the Pope's birthday for a baptismal feast. I can never remember whether I was baptized on the day Paul VI died -- August 6, 1978, also my husband's 10th birthday -- or three weeks later. I'm sure my mother can tell me.
We just missed being able to baptize #2 on the feast of St. Therese -- October 1 is a Friday this year -- but the Guardian Angels are October 2, which is pretty good too! Do I read too much meaning into feast days?
I think it's a lovely thing to remember feast days.
wow, I have something in common with Davey! well, sort of -- I have the small honor of having been born on the Holy Father's fiftieth birthday.
Oh, I knew your birthday was in May but I guess I didn't notice the coincidence of dates if you ever told me. Actually have trouble remembering the baptism date offhand. 18th I think.
I was born on the feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, myself. What I know of him I like...
I never remember any of the feast days associated with myself but I always remember my Great-grandmother's birthday and it's feast day. This particular great-grandma was from the branch of the family tree which wasn't Catholic, which I think is why it sticks in my head. Her middle name was Agatha and she happened to be born on Feb 5, which is St Agatha's feast day.
My grandmother's middle name was Agatha also-Ruby Agatha. It was pronounced Ah-GAHT-uh in the Jamaican dialect. She was born in Nov. though.
You ladies are blessed to have some control over when you can baptise your babies.Here it is just the first or third sunday of the month at the 10.30 Mass-lol
I was born on the day Pope John Paul II was shot. However, I like to say it was the day the third Fatima secret was fulfilled.
Amy, my oldest son, Nate, was also born on St. Agatha's day!
I really like that second picture a lot, the perspective it puts it into our everyday. The only thing I do not like about it is while you can tell it is Mary, it doesn't look like Mary.