Giulia Baptism Ceremony

Posted on 2007/12/15 20:11:50 (December 2007).

[Sunday 9th December 2007]

Today we all went to Prato early in the morning (for a Sunday of course), to attend to Ivan and Angela daughter's Baptism ceremony.

As many of you know my belief in the Christian Church is close to nothing, so the only drive for me to go there was the fact that all the other friends were coming and it was going to be a great chance to have fun together.

The mass was probably the funniest part, basically the priest is not Italian and although he made a good job at speaking in Italian all the time, you could tell that sometimes he used the "pre made" phrases that probably he studied when he was a novice. The funnies part was the fact that the things that he was saying were COMPLETELY unrelated to what he was talking about a minute earlier, a classic escape route that he used when he did not know what to say and (or) the language was a bit rusty.
The other marvel was the fact that he probably said "as a matter of fact" (ecco, in Italian) at least 400 times. I am not joking it was really senseless, but I have to thank him because the mass was long and without him I probably would have fallen asleep.

The party after the ceremony was good, there was the usual kissing and hugging and chatting and so on, until lunch time when me and Chiara had to leave.

A nice start of that day that unfortunately got spoiled by Fiorentina loosing yet another match.

The more I look around the more I see people leaving the Christian path for the atheism or other religions. I cannot help but liking it, although the Italian government and television is pushing forward the Pope and Christianity more and more. I think that Italy is the only country in the world that has the Pope broadcasted on EVERY television news program every day. Yes, EVERY DAY, we are subject to see if the Pope ate a doughnut, slept well, said something against the gay community or science as a whole, or farted too much.

Needless to say that I completely hate it, but nowadays information is totally mouldy here in Pizzaland and it's impossible for me to look at the news for more than 3 minutes...

Anwyays going back to Giulia, who will have the undoubted honour of living in this country (or shithole), I wish her all the best, and I wish her to think when she will grow up about religion and all of that!

Nice event, Lox! I always like these get-togethers. Oh, and Chiara has a nice smile, despite being tired :)

Posted by Nigel at 2007/12/17 16:33:18.

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