Christenings

[Redearth]

I have a bit of a of a problem with Christening of our new bub.......

We live in Townsville and DH family lives in Cairns and my family live in Sydney.

Im an Anglican and my husband is Catholic.

As long as bubs is christened in the christian church - we dont mind how bubs is christened

What i was wondering is it possible to get bubs christened in Cairns as a Catholic, and then Christened in Sydney as and Anglican, so then neither family has to travel for a christening, but all familes are involved?

I would like to hear others opinions / suggestions on this.

Thankyou

[feeb]

Sounds like a lovely idea to keep all familys happy.

I suppose you would have to check with the churches the legalities of 2 christinings but i wouldnt think there would be a problem as some people get christined into a difff church when they are older.

[Erin_25]

Sounds like a lovely idea to keep all familys happy.

I suppose you would have to check with the churches the legalities of 2 christinings but i wouldnt think there would be a problem as some people get christined into a difff church when they are older.

I'm not 100% sure, so sorry if I'm wrong - but later in life if you wish to change religion aren't you accepted over into the church as opposed to actually being Christened.....and then if you are you are giving up you other religion?
My Mum did this to join our Lutheran Church as my Father is Lutheran & all us kids were christened in the Lutheran church but Mum was Catholic.

You choose what ever you want, but as someone else pointed out it doesn't really make sense to have two religions (don't think you can). Depending on how religious you are I suppose, if you plan to take them to Sunday School, have them confirmed & so on you can only do that once, so perhaps think where that would be (ie, what church) and perhaps choose that religon.

Personally speaking from experience I don't think it's a very good thing to choose something just to keep "the family" happy - we've had many arguments over this due to a very high mantinence MIL!!!! ahhhh & several things have ended in disaster for us & we have regretted it. We now just stick up for ourselves!!

It should be your choice & what makes you happy. Also isn't it the same as a getting married??? (if you did so in a church) - would you have two services in 2 different churches? or choose which way you want to go - just a thought.

Perhaps if you are not that religious yourselve's you could just have a naming day at home?

Hope you can sort it out. Goodluck.

[visitor1]

Hey..my DD was Baptised yesterday. I am Catholic, DH is Anglican. DD wasnt able to be Christened as a Catholic due to me not having down all the things (holy communion, recosiliation, confirmation etc) so if you want Catholic..make sure you have done all those first. So we went to Anglican, much simple! We are in Melbourne and all of family flew from NSW to be here.

I persoanlly would only have one service. Cathoilc or Anglican..not 2.....im not even sure your child can have 2 religiions???? I think its your day and family should come to you and help celebrate.


Good luck with what you choose to do.

[Pandora]

Baptism should be recognised by most or all Christian Churches. Its the one thing they agree on.
Go and have a chat to the Priest/Vicar/ whatever the correct title is, and have a chat.

One of my friends is Catholic, her husband is Lutheran and they had a talk with the Pastor who explained it all to them.

Also, WRT

DD wasnt able to be Christened as a Catholic due to me not having down all the things (holy communion, recosiliation, confirmation etc) so if you want Catholic..make sure you have done all those first.

This depends entirely on the Priest and the Parish (or sometimes Diocese) that you want the Baptism in.
Kerry might pop in and comment on this.

[PinkPalace]

i am not sure that you can baptise a child into 2 religions - unless you lie and say the baby was not christened yet?, surely this also defeats the purpose of choosing a religion for your child but rather doing it out of convience to keep family happy?

i would suggest choosing the religion that you can best raise and educate your child in (ie if hubby is catholic but non-practising and you r then i would go your religion so at least one of you can teach the child when they grow up and ask questions).

We have this situation too redearth, so dont think i am judging you as i am not, we have spent a long time talking through this. i amm anglican and dh is greek-orthodox. I know more about christianity than him so we have decided to christen our bub anglican. We have family in townsville to tully and bundaberg to brisbane so we have chosen to christen her in brisbane as it is a capital city that people can fly easily too if this wish to attend.

In saying that we are not having a huge hoo-ha over the day, informal invites, morning tea etc, we have decided that the most important thing is having dd baptised and not fulfilling the wats and needs of every family member throughout qld (we were almost going to have her baptism at our local church where we have no family!).

so my advice if choose what is best for your baby, not keeping families happpy, if they really want to be there they will be regardless of where you have it. Dont confuse the child by having dual-religions - afterall they are both christian so whats the diff? And if you feel you have to lie to the chrches about previous baptism or your reasons for wanting 2 different christian religions then i wouldnt be baptising bub at all.

Figure out what you want as a new family and do that. Your new family is whatcomes first now, not pleasing others.

hope you find the answer to your dilemma soon

hugs

pm