Hello Everyone,
I know there have been many threads on Baptism and others have had some difficulty, sorry to start a brand new one, but I have read the others and I need to vent a bit.
My little man will be 7 weeks on Friday and I being raised in a small town as a strong Catholic where babies were baptised often within a month, really want my son baptised ASAP.
Background:
I now live in a different small town, but we do not have a church. We go to mass regularly in the city 15 mins away. This past spring, my DH and I switched parishes in prep for our 'family' (we had no idea at the time it would be so soon). Our church was primarily older people and not very active in the youth, so we started going to another parish with a wonderful Priest and very active congregation.
Fast Forward:
I have been calling the church since DS was 1 week old to get the prep started. Someone finally talked to me at about 2 weeks. I told her my story, as above and about adoption. She said she had to talk to the Priest and get back to me. At the time, she said it wouldn't be until Jan or Feb (big parish) and you can't book until you've completed all the prep, which was a bit of a shock and a little upsetting he'd be a bit older, but I still need to have DS baptised. That was 5 weeks ago; I've left many messages and have heard nothing.
I just called today, and the lady I talked to before was not in but I did get to talk to someone. She said she would pass along the message. She also told me the last prep class was 2 weeks ago and the next isn't till Jan!
Aaughhhhh! Most people take the class before they give birth and have everthing booked nice and early. Ours was an istant placement, we couldn't do that. And now it just feels that this lady doesn't want to deal with me or our 'situation'. Because it is such a large parish I haven't talked to the Priest yet, but I may call him Friday if I haven't heard back from the evasive lady.
Why does everything have to have the added difficulty because of others ignorance? We have went though this once, trying to get a health nurse out for the regular visit. No one knew what to do, no one would help me and they actually told me to call the post partem depression help line when I got frustrated!
I am a Mom. God has blessed our family with this precious little boy. I love my son. I want what is best for him and we deserve to be treated like every other family. Not swept aside because someone is not informed of "the special protocall".
I have been very level headed and accepting and positive throughout our journey. I pray alot and thank God for this wonderful blessing. I just needed to get this off my chest. Thanks for listening
Michelle