And one thing about me

[sal_amanda]

So I'm going to be a godmother.  My friend Sue's sister Aimee is having her third child tomorrow and she was trying to figure out godparents, but has run out of Catholics.  I can relate as I'm already running out, myself.  Anyway, Aimee and Sue thought of me since they've known me at least since we were all in Brownies together, if not earlier, and I'm apparently more trustworthy than other potential candidates that they're actually related to. 

This means that I have to get a letter from my church and I hope they're not going to be overly strict about it since I haven't been in attendance much since Nora was born, and only slightly more than that before she was born. 

But then again, whose to say that I haven't been going, but just haven't been using my envelopes?  Right?  I'm just saying...

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[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

I am short on Catholics too! I used up my brother and sister on Sam. I have several Catholic friends who live several large states away from me, so I'm not sure if they could do it or not...

[sal_amanda]

They don't technically have to be present for the ceremony. Nora's godmother lives in Alabama currently and she got held up on her flight and her mom stood in as her proxy. My mom wasn't present for her niece's baptism, either, since they live in Florida so they did the proxy for that, as well.

[busybusymama.livejournal.com]

Congrats! That is exciting. :)

How is it that when I was growing up, all I knew were Catholics (in Catholic school, it couldn't be avoided), yet we also had a problem finding Catholics for Godparents. Particularly men.

Funny that you have to get a letter. Burlington diocese apparently doesn't care about such formalities. They just asked where the Godparents were baptized, I think.

Oh, and our church doesn't do envelopes. Our priest always knows who goes, though, because the church is so small. You should have heard him at confession (had to set the example for Jacob...) telling me all about how there is a Saturday mass that I could go to, hint, hint. :)

[sal_amanda]

I know! Buffalo is at least 85% Catholic, as was Geneseo, so I knew tons of Catholics. But then everyone got married non-Catholic or just really fell away or something so they're not really Catholic anymore, in the eyes of the church, that is.

My church is the only Catholic church that's growing, I swear, because it's still a developing town. We're getting a new, bigger church while other parishes are closing. They have six or seven masses every weekend, but they're seriously all inconvenient for me right now.

Some priests don't care about the letters. I've seen that. I don't appear to be that lucky on this one, and my church was pretty stringent about that when Nora was baptized.

[busybusymama.livejournal.com]

That's crazy about the number of masses at your church. The one in my town has combined with a couple other towns, and left one other church open. So there is Saturday mass there, and here, plus two Sunday morning here.

I wonder if my cousin goes to your church. Assuming, of course that he still goes, at all.

Is John Catholic? Can't remember...

Oh, and I'm amused that 6 or 7 masses could all be inconvenient. *I* get it, but I'm sure the priest would think your are nutso. I want to get there every week, but with John's schedule, it often feels like impossible. I feel guilty, because Jacob is doing 1st communion the first weekend in May, and he really isn't used to going to church. Bad me.

[sal_amanda]

John is a heathen. Or at least that's what the deacon joked when I registered for my church here and told him John wasn't baptised.

Where does your cousin live? You can't throw a rock around the Buffalo area without hitting a Catholic church so we all have many to choose from. Though since no one goes anymore, a lot of them are closing or merging. Except mine, which is oddly getting bigger.

[beatmbg.livejournal.com]

The Catholic church I went to when I was a kid didn't bother with the envelopes...they just expected a strait 10% at the end of the year...like taxes. No guilt though if you don't ;D

I'm getting Nora's package in the mail here soon.

[sal_amanda]

That's an interesting way to do the tithe, I suppose. I think a lot of churches use the envelopes as a way to hold it over people because they keep track of attendance that way. My mom said the church where I grew up recently had a notice in their bulletin about not getting a letter for such a thing if you're not attending. Although if you're not attending, you're not seeing that notice in the bulletin.