Chaneka was baptized, confirmed and received First Eucharist at our church tonight at the Easter vigil liturgy. Simply in the baptism pool she was dunked three times signifying her death into a new life. Than she was confirmed in the faith and after the ‘breaking of the break’ received the life of Christ in the bread and wine.
Chaneka is a 10 year old African American girl, with Tanzania ancestry, who, sometimes with her step sister and brother, goes around the Church shaking hands at the time we offer peace to each other.

When it came down, at the end of the liturgy, for each member of the church to lay hands on her my words to her was “Bless you Holy Child.”

Just like it was in the killing of children that we remembered yesterday in Way of the Cross? tonight we remember the hope of a new life that a child manifests.
Yes we must remember the the children killed by war but also remember the children being born in a new life. A child of life can overcome the death of the cross. Chaneka is the Holy Child today.

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