From: Illegitimi non carborundum – personal reflections from a faithful Catholic priest in the trenches
Last Monday night a parishioner came knocking on my door at around 10:30 PM. I already knew that Windy, an Indonesian woman married to an American by the name of Brian, was already in the hospital. Windy was seven months pregnant and her little baby girl was ready to be delivered early. The man who came to my door told me that the baby did indeed just arrive and the baby was not in good shape. In fact, the baby was being sent immediately from the Catholic hospital that is on our side of the city to another hospital where they care for the most delicate cases of little babies and children that are having serious difficulties.
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I asked Miguel if a nurse had baptized the little baby. He did not know. So, I rushed over to the other hospital in order to baptize the little baby.
I rushed into the Neo-natal ICU unit. “Where’s the baby?” The nurse looked at me rather strangely. “Which baby?”, she asked. “The Peitz baby that was sent over from the Catholic hospital”. She looked at the computer screen. “The only baby that arrived is the baby being prepared for surgery.” I thought fast (not easy late on Monday night) and I assumed that this baby must be the baby that I am supposed to baptize. I baptized the baby and thanked all of the nurses that were present.
As I left the N-ICU unit and entered once again the waiting area to take the elevator down to the first floor of the hospital, a gentleman approached me and asked me if I could baptize his baby who was in really bad shape. We returned to the N-ICU unit and the man told the nurse that he wanted me to baptize his baby.
I turned to the man and said, “I baptized the wrong baby. Your baby is already baptized!” I then realized what had occurred. God used the little Peitz baby to get me to baptize another baby. If it were not for the Peitz baby, I would never have been there at that very moment.
I then asked the nurse to check the computer regarding the Peitz baby. New updated information had just arrived and she told me that the Peitz baby was still at the Catholic hospital and would not arrive for another two hours.
Rushing back to the Catholic hospital, I was able baptize little Irena Marie Peitz.
The next day the first baby that I had baptized died after surgery. A few days later, on Friday night, little Irena Marie joined the first baby in Heaven. Thanks to Irena Marie, the first baby is in Heaven.
Yesterday afternoon, at our little parish, a little saint was laid to rest. Although we are saddened by a great loss, we celebrated her life and rejoiced because she is truly in Heaven.
Throughout this entire ordeal, I could not stop thinking about the amazing example of Windy, Brian, their children, our parishioners, the doctors, the nurses and the chaplains. Everyone was doing what they could to save a life. Meanwhile, not too far down the road, the abortion doctor is doing all that he can to destroy little children.
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Ahh, Catholic Dogma. Even the most innocent among us, the newly born, cannot gain admission into heaven without passing through their gatekeeper, the Catholic sacraments.
Color me unimpressed.
Russell,
It’s what the Catholic church believes, and the priest was simply stating his belief. Isn’t this a great country?
God bless you and your soul.
Well all I can say is that as catholic myself, is at least we believe in something. Which is worth alot to me in this world of the godlessness folks all around us everyday.
Just because I (and millions of protestants worldwide) believe that the unborn and the uninitiated are automatically bound for God’s salvation and love, does not make us “godless.”
My comment was in the flaw of the Dogma. The general principle that the unborn, the stillborn, the newborn, and the unbaptized cannot obtain the love of God without pergatory, is in itself repugnant.
All of God’s children are His. All of us who have accepted Christ as our savior can look forward to a warm afterlife in His embrace. Children do not have to be baptized for them to share in this beauty and reward. They are not tainted by the sin of this world, and thus do not need it to be washed away. They are already innocent, and the insinuation that those two babies only went to heaven because of the actions of this priest is offensive.
I am not anti-Catholic. I just do not believe in many of the things they teach. They create un-necessary barriers between man and God, and the idea that the actions of a man, albeit an ordained minister, can secure the entry into heaven of a newborn baby, is alien to me.