xavier got baptized today. he really should have been baptized long before now, but we didnt know where a traditional catholic church was here in germany. finally my dad got in touch with the bishop who gave us contact information for a priest here. i started talking to him over email and he told me about a church here in stuttgart! i was pretty shocked that there was one here and its only like 15 minutes away! its awesome! last week was our first time going there. its this little chapel with about 15-20 members. its super tiny. of course, we are the only americans and everything is in german and latin so its kind of tough. well, not the latin part because i can follow the mass fine, but the sermon and everything else is in german. anyway, so we talked to the priest last week about getting xavier baptized and he set it up for today!
we got there at 3:30pm, a half hour before mass started. the ceremony started pretty much right away. it took about 20 or so minutes. when the priest was speaking german he was rolling his "r's" and xavier really liked that. he was glued to him and kept smiling. it was cute! the beginning part is 3 exorcisms - during that part xavier spit up twice. i didnt think of this but jeremy told me after that he kept thinking of "the exorcist". hahahaha xavier did pretty good throughout the ceremony, he liked the salt on his tongue. he started crying when the priest was making the sign of the cross with the oils on him so i took over and held him from then on. he didnt even start crying when the holy water was being poured over his head!
mass was after the ceremony and then we came home.
everyone there is so nice, even though they dont know english and we dont know german - they just act so kind towards us.
next weekend, the 31st, is when we are having the celebration of his baptism. i am excited! =)
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