I have heard the term, baby dedication. I always thought it was probably in churches that didn't baptize babies. Barbara At 11:28 PM 3/9/07, you wrote: >I'm Catholic also and have 3 children and 6 grandchildren and it is >baptized. I have never seen anything where Catholic babies/children >are christened. >I have seen protestants have Christening for young children and then they >are baptized at the age of knowledge.

Dedication is normally used in the sense of dedicating the child and his or her life to Christ. In the usual sense, it is not a ceremony in itself but instead a reason and purpose attached to the ceremony. The first usage of which I am aware if the word "Christening" was associated with the Methodist Church. Barbara & George Grenier <grenier@earthlink.net> wrote: I have heard the term, baby dedication. I always thought it was probably in churches that didn't baptize babies. Barbara At 11:28 PM 3/9/07, you wrote: >I'm Catholic also and have 3 children and 6 grandchildren and it is >baptized. I have never seen anything where Catholic babies/children >are christened. >I have seen protestants have Christening for young children and then they >are baptized at the age of knowledge. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message