Baptisms

On Holy Saturday we had a very exciting day!! My mom's husband Bill (Patron Saint Apostle Paul) AND my nephew (Patron Saint Seraphim) both were Baptized and Chrismated into the Orthodox church. It was an amazing day!

The Baptismal gowns and candles laid out and ready.

The grandkids were all very excited!!

The proclamation of faith.

The family all lined up....from left, my sister, BIL, Bill's daughter and grandchildren, Bill's son, my mom, my aunt and uncle.

Bill being submersed.

Seraphim rising from the water after the third and final plunge.

The newly illumined.

The light of Christ.

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. For he who has died is freed from sin. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Rom 6:3-11