Do You Celebrate Your Baptism Birthday?

[Sarah147]

Hello!

A Sister on EWTN shared about celebrating your Baptism day birthday. I thought it sounded like a wonderful idea and I want to do something for it yearly, if I remember to!


Please do the poll. When is your Baptism day and what's the feast or memorial that day?


God bless you.

[she_who_is_not]

I was baptized on Easter as an infant and then was received into the Church/Confirmed on Easter! So, yes, I celebrate. My friends and I have a tradition of going out for pancakes after Easter Vigil to celebrate my anniversary as a Catholic.

[Sarah147]

A w esome! I hope everyone votes!

Edited February 3, 2011 by JoyfulLife

[BG45]

You know this is awful, but I can't tell you the day I was baptised as a Baptist. I can tell you the day and place I accepted Jesus, but not my baptism; my church made me wait until the end of the fiscal quarter so they could maximize the amount of people they baptised at once. As for Easter Vigil, I definitely celebrate after it

[CatherineM]

I was baptized on April 15th. Not much of a day to celebrate.

[Sarah147]

Have you got a baptism record? Your Church ought to have it on file, I would think. They need it for getting confirmed.

[BG45]

Baptist churches don't tend to do baptismal certificates, so I had to get a letter from them saying the year I was baptised on church stationary.

[Sarah147]

I was baptized in a Lutheran Church, and they gave a really nice certificate.

[dominicansoul]

I've celebrated it every year since i can remember. My birthday is Jan. 3rd, and my baptism day is Jan. 10, seven days later. That also happens to be the Baptism of Jesus. I celebrate my birthday every year by sleeping in the fetal position the night before. hhahahaha I celebrate my Baptism by sleeping prostrate on the ground in cruciform...(not really, but that sounds like a good idea!)

[franciscanheart]

I do celebrate it. Good stuff.

[TeresaBenedicta]

I celebrate it twice

I was baptized Easter of 2007, which was April 7th. So I celebrate on April 7th AND on Easter. It's a party.

[Tally Marx]

I wanted to do it when I was little.
But, my family was never into it and when June 21 rolled around, there was no one there to remind me.
Now I celebrate my Confirmation Day!

Edited to add: I was Baptized as an infant. I don't remember it. I remember my Confirmation, though. )

Edited February 3, 2011 by Tally Marx

[elizabeth09]

The day after I was baptism, because, then, was two years after my grandpa had died.

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='dominicansoul' timestamp='1296773003' post='2208347']
My birthday is Jan. 3rd, and my baptism day is Jan. 10, seven days later. That also happens to be the Baptism of Jesus.
[/quote]

WAY COOL!!

[MissyP89]

I'm not sure when I was baptized, but I know I was about 9 months old by then (I was born very premature and spent a few months in the hospital). I do celebrate the day I reverted (and that I survived that confession!), though. April 21st.

[OnlySunshine]

I always attend Mass on my baptism birthday because I was baptized on August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. In years past, I lit a prayer candle and said the rosary. Since I became Consecrated to Mary in 2009, my baptism birthday has extra special meaning for me. I love Mary so much.

I was confirmed on April 29th which also has a special meaning for me now because it is the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena!

Edited February 4, 2011 by MaterMisericordiae

[Sarah147]

Wow, some a w esome feast days!


I was baptized on the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin, May 31st. Is it no wonder I consecrated to Mary and became a Catholic? Mary has been working on me for sometime. In Girl Scouts, I did something called the "Marian Medal" and I learned a lot about her.

Edited February 4, 2011 by JoyfulLife

[Archaeology cat]

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You know this is awful, but I can't tell you the day I was baptised as a Baptist. I can tell you the day and place I accepted Jesus, but not my baptism; my church made me wait until the end of the fiscal quarter so they could maximize the amount of people they baptised at once. As for Easter Vigil, I definitely celebrate after it
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I always forget mine. I know it was in January, and the heater had gone out in the baptistry, so it was cold water.

I celebrated Kieran's with him, just be making a point of going to Mass.

[Tony]

yes, april 18, and according to catholic.org the saints with feast days are....

* St. Agia
* St. Apollonius the Apologist
* St. Wicterp
* St. Calocerus
* St. Cogitosus
* St. Corebus
* St. Eleutherius & Anthia
* St. Galdinus
* St. Gebuinus
* St. Laserian
* St. Perfectus

(I'm not familiar with any of them though)

[tinytherese]

My birth date is All Saints Day. I was baptized on Christmas Day and what with so much celebration going on for that, I forget that it even is my baptismal birthday. I was confirmed on April 16th, just three days before B16 was elected. Maybe it would be a good idea to do something to celebrate my confirmation saint's feast day (Therese Oct. 1st) or the saint that I have for a middle name (Anne July 26th.)