Tuesday, 8 May 2007
Jack Waterford
EMILY POST , I am not. The knife and fork, came late into most of the root systems of my family tree and the scars on the face of some of my ancestors bear witness. Napkins came in first with our bushranging. I am not normally held out to be any […]
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers January 2, 2008
By Doug Carroll
Paul Martinez came all way from Orange, Calif., for a baby’s baptism.
He got one, too — in the dirty, icy waters of Lake Michigan.
Click here for a photo gallery of the polar plunge in Sheboygan
Click here for a video of the polar plunge in Sheboygan
”I scream like […]
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) ―When Elisabeth Anne Huls was baptized over the weekend, she wore a white cotton gown that’s been in her family for 124 years.The gown and accompanying petticoat cost $10 for a seamstress to make back in 1883. Agnes Munz, Elisabeth’s great-great-great-grandmother, paid to have the dress made for the first […]
[Episcopal News Service] A historic ecumenical agreement mutually recognizing the sacrament of Baptism was signed by the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil, the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Presbyterian United Church and the Syrian Orthodox Church during a November 15 celebration at the Mosteiro de São Bento in São Paulo, Brazil. More […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Arlington A. “Jim” Schuchart does not remember many details of his time in Germany in the 89th Infantry Division.
As he’s fond of saying, “that was a long time ago.”
But the 85-year-old World War II veteran recalls the day he got hold of a piece of German parachute with clarity, pride and a devilish smile.
Private First […]