Lisa's Baptism

Many of you know that I have been going to classes since September 2007 to become Catholic. Tonight was the night that I was baptised, received Confirmation and Communion for the first time. It was a long ceremony but very beautiful. I was baptised with 4 other adults and 3 children. Here we are being anointed by the blessed oils.

In our church it is a full submersion baptism - yes that is right full submersion! Father Robert had just recently come come back from the holy land and brought back water from the Jordan River. He blessed our baptism water and added the water from the Jordan River. It was a pretty cool ceremony.

Here I go completely under....

And here I come out. Even though I looked like a drowned rat in front of the whole congregation, it was a pretty cool experience.

We had 15 minutes to get out of our wet clothes to come back into the Church and continue the ceremony with Conformation and Communion, so we all had wet hair. Here we got our Conformation candles. My father-in-law and my mother-in-law were my sponsors (Chuck and Sherry Fulcher). You see them here with me as a part of the ceremony. Then came communion. There are parts of the ceremony that are very sacred, so therefore no pictures.

Afterwards, Chuck and Sherry gave me the most beautiful Rosary! It was so sweet and thoughtful of them to do that for me. It was made out of Jade and silver. They picked this one as they knew green was my favorite color. I was able to get my Rosary blessed that very night.

Here we are with Father Robert. Now I am a full fledged member of the St. James community!