Posted on 04/09/2009 9:16:48 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
A Norwegian church used lemon-flavoured cola instead of water in a baptism ceremony after its taps were temporarily turned off because of freezing temperatures.
Priest Paal Dale from the town of Stord, about 150 miles west of the capital Oslo, improvised during a recent cold-spell by dabbing the lemon fizzy water on a baby during a baptism ceremony, it said.
"It had gone flat," Dale was quoted as saying by the newspaper. "Only the lemon smell made this unusual."
Dale said the child's family were informed about the switch only after the ceremony because the priest "had a need to inform" them about the lingering lemon scent.
"They didn't say much, but I assumed they smelled the aroma as well," Dale told Vaart Land.
A moose once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end
of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: “The Hot Hands of an Oslo
Dentist”
You know, you could melt snow in hands that hot and use it for a baptism. Realli!
“flat lemon cola”
that’s what they give inductees at some colleges.
They had a problem (frozen pipes) so the improvised. Big deal. I don’t see it as a problem.
Christians in China are persecuted, so they often are immersion baptised inside in bathtubs instead of public ceremony to make it harder for the state to target them for persecution. Does that make the baptism any less valid because it didn’t meet some cermonial standard? I don’t think so.
God is concerned with the heart, not ceremony.
My pastor friend baptized me in a swimming pool.
I’m told it’s actually fairly easy to thaw out frozen water.
Holy water is usually scented. I don’t see why he couldn’t have said something before instead of hiding it.
Are there baptisms in Mecca?
Has anyone seen any account of this that mentioned the denomination of thie priest?
That said, if there is no emergency (i.e. the baby is dying), then the Baptism should have been postponed until proper matter for the sacrament could be obtained.
Then again, how hard is it to thaw out ice or snow?
And shouldn’t a church have Holy Water prepared at all times in some sort of vessel?
You know, you could melt snow in hands that hot and use it for a baptism. Realli!
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That is what I thought, why not get some snow or ice cubes and put them over the stove, furnace, whatever.
Now see that makes sense. Something about this story stinks!!
It would definitely not be a valid Catholic baptism. The proper matter is "true and natural water".
That is true. I checked and Norway is about 90% Lutheran, so the chances this was Catholic are small.
Still, the Lutherans should have some standards. There is no excuse for this farce, unless the priest was on the payroll of 7-Up.
And when they run out of wine for consecration they use RC Cola....
Baptism by immersion in Soda Pop would certainly give you a little Holy Ghost tingle. I paid a nickle to see that.
Invalid matter.
NEXT!
It was a Lutheran baptism.
I checked. This is the parish: http://www.kyrkja-stord.no/
The “priest” is a Lutheran names Paal Dale who is clearly listed as such here: http://kyrkja-stord.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97&Itemid=133
amen.
I was immersed in a pond. We immerse our members in a nearby lake/retreat facility. It’s great.
Well, the state church is Lutheran.
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