I finally got myself registered for confirmation.
Yep, you heard right. Catholic confirmation, I haven’t had it yet. Yes, I grew up in a Catholic school. Yes, we had confirmations there en masse.
I didn’t join in because I planned to get confirmed with my brother, who at the time was studying at Pisay (a public school, no religion classes). Alas, we never “found the time” to do so, and here I am at the ripe old age of 26, about to get confirmed with a multitude of teeners two Saturdays from now.
I called just about every church in Paranaque and Las Pinas, even QC. None except St Andrew Cathedral in La Huerta, Paranaque will be conducting the rite anytime soon (and by soon I mean this month because we need to get our papers fixed next month). I went over immediately. The guy at the parish office reminded me: ang bata lang ang pwede sa loob ng simbahan sa umaga, ang magulang at mga ninong at ninang, alas dose pa pwede (only the child is allowed inside the church in the morning, the parents and godparents can enter at 12 noon). I sheepishly said yes, praying he didn’t notice that I was the “bata” he was referring to.
AND, after all the stress of finding an available church (and arguing with M about it for weeks), I learned from w@w that the church near Malacanang performs the rite every Sunday. Susmaryosep.
Anyhoo. St Andrew Cathedral is a nice church and, having been established in 1580, maybe the oldest in Paranaque. My city is that old. Cool.
St Andrew Cathedral (photo from Wikipedia)
So there. I also got my baptism certificate with the “for marriage purpose” stamp from Sts Peter and Paul Parish in Makati. Before that I scoured our old files at home for my original certificate. I learned there are two versions, both typewritten (no PCs here in 1983) with different sets of godparents and different places of birth! Yikes. I also found out that I was baptized on – drumroll – the 27th of February. That’s the date of our wedding in case you ignored this blog’s header/banner. Hee, cute noh. 🙂
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