My friends we gather here at this door to the Church to welcome this child into the faith of the Church into our faith. She enters today the house of God as a visitor but like all the Baptized she will leave here our little sister in Christ
A Daughter not just of Jennifer and Francis, from whom she take her humanity but a Daughter of God, adopted into God’s family by the blood and water that flowed from the side of Christ on the Cross.
All are welcomed here in God’s house for indeed God desires that all be saved and outside of Christ, outside God’ family none are saved. But entering into this house as a member of the Body of Christ, a member of God’s family has duties and responsibilities.
Our God gives us the gift of freedom he wants us to be free—but true freedom and true happiness means seeking the will of God the Father and doing it daily.
As you enter into God’s house—I encourage those of you who are Baptized, who are members of the family of God to remember your duty to seek God’s will
God calls you along with all the Baptized to be holy in this way you will save your soul and teach so many others the Love that is Jesus Christ.
Coming here today we gather with Jen and Francis to welcome our new sister in Christ.
Help them to witness by your lives and words to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Help them to teach Hannah Faith, the faith of the Church and the Law of God and Help her to live it. Do not create obstacles for her faith do not distract her from her vocation, her calling to be holy do not be an occasion to scandalized this little one, for as the Gospel says, it is better to be cast into the sea with a millstone around your neck than to scandalize even one of these little ones.
As I told her parents—as a baptized Christian she will become our sister in Christ not just a child but our equal in the eyes of God. Be humble therefore, open your heart so that you can learn also from her about the Love that God has for the whole world.
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