great day for a baptism

spent this morning on the harpeth river sharing in daniel's baptism and chrismation into the orthodox church. Father Parthinios led the service with others helping with the liturgy and other elements. my first introduction to this church came some time ago, and i'll take some credit for today as i remember taking daniel to alektor when we first met up. i never would have thought it would come to today, but there we found ourselves.

the weather was beautiful. one couldn't ask for better weather (though i gather warmer water would have been nice). the service started at 8am beginning the liturgy and blessing of the water. then we moved into the baptism and then chrismation. daniel's new Christian name is maximus, or max. the friends collected got to chuckle at which name he'd be going by. what i really liked about the service was much of the intentionality, it was long, but only because there were so many people and there was a huge covering of the participants in prayers, liturgy, and community. view more photos in my flickr set

afterwards i let the dogs go play in the blessed water. hoping it might rub off on them. haha! made a stop by the dog park as well. then headed all the way home.

Comments

[Brother Marty]

Seemed like a really cool event! Wish I was there.
Marty

[Wayne]

What a special day for Daniel. Glad you got to share in it.

[gavin]

marty, i'm sure you would have enjoyed it! wayne, if you have a need for doing an immersion baptism up here in nashville, i know a great spot!

[John]

Wasn't it Beth Quick who said that when she felt called into the ministry as a young child, baptized her cat?

[Daniel Greeson]

thanks for coming out Gavin and taking some great pictures.

[gavin]

dg, it was my honor to be there, thanks for the invite. glad i could take some pics for you and others