January 16, 2011
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Baptism Pictures Part 2
A lovely gentleman from church took pictures at the baptism last Sunday and came today with a cd for each family with lots of pictures from the big day. It was so nice and generous of him to do this for all of us. I love our church, it is just gorgeous. The statues, stained glass, crucifixes and art work are supposed to draw our thoughts towards heaven and God.
Marian Alter (a side alter)
Stained Glass windows
St Joseph (side) Alter
High Alter in the sanctuary
St. Anne and the Blessed Mother
Sacred Heart of Jesus
Miscellaneous pictures of the church. The first is of the pipe organ in the choir loft
These are below the two side alters
The ceiling right before entering the sanctuary
One of the gospel writers found on the ambo
Catherine praying before making her First Communion
Receiving her First Holy Communion (slightly blurry, but I love the image)
Veronica and I during Mass
Catherine after Mass
People gathering before the baptisms
Alter servers and priests processing in for the baptisms
Entering the church
Processing to the front of the church
Dedication to the Blessed Mother
Group shots of all those attending the First Communion and Baptism taken from the balcony (below the choir loft) at the back to the church
Comments (3)
Wow! Those pictures are amazingly beautiful. I wish all churches these days still looked like yours.
I am hoping and praying more than ever that Boston is a real possibility for us so we can spend some time together. I think our kids would get along famously!! Thank you so much for sharing your photos and describing the entire experience. You are so blessed to have available to you a holy and obedient parish. I am so impressed that your parish took the time to celebrate first holy Eucharist on the same day as a baptism. Was it a whole class or is it as each child becomes of age and wisdom? Those were precious photos!! God bless your sweet holy family!! xoxo
@SaintsFaithHopeandCharity - We were so blessed to have our priest allow another priest to come in and celebrate the baptisms in the extraordinary form. Our priest wasn't able to be there, which was disappointing, but he is/was very busy (we have almost 3,000 families in our parish). I love our priest though, he is very faith-filled and a great homilist.
As for the First Communion. Typically kids make it as a class, but our parish does a great job of accommodating special requests. The other family home schools as well and Catherine was able to make her First Communion outside of the typical class schedule because she was ready, which I really think is great. We are very blessed to have such a wonderful parish.
I also hope and pray you guys can get Boston next, I would love to be able to get together; I agree our children would get along well and it would be so great to spend time w/ you in person.
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