I am now at home! Thanks to all of you who I have met along the way and have prayed for this day. Please continue to pray for me, a sinner, as I continue to walk in the ways of our ancestors in this church where we all are in Christ and Christ is in all of us.
And so it begins. At 8:45 AM, I received Chrismation beside my sponsor, Seraphim Hamilton, by my priest, Fr. James Purdie. Fr. James joked with my wife saying that she had better take her photos quickly as the ceremony is over in the blink of an eye. And as it was. I was sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit by being anointed with Chrism (a specially scented oil used for the newly baptized and converts). Being anointed and reading the Nicene Creed, I was welcomed into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
It wasn’t a very emotional experience for me. I was already on the path to conversion and pretty much considered myself a closet Orthodox Christian in the first place. This pretty much confirmed what had already happened to me. If anything, I was more joyful that my wife who rarely attended services at Trinity Baptist…
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