this question popped into my head on another thread but I did not want to derail....
But I was wondering if Godparents could be named after the baptism if there was not time to choose them at the time of the baptism. For example: My friends little daughter was born with a birth defect and was rushed into surgery soon after the birth. There must not have been time to get a priest there because Daddy did a quicky baptism right before they took her for her surgery (This is not allowable in my tradition but it melts my heart just thinking about how sweet that is
) and there are no shortage of priests here. it was a Catholic hospital for crying out loud, so everything must have happened REALLY fast. SOOOOOO, that brings me to the question....in an event like that would godparents be named later? if so is there any sort of special thing they must to be official or are they just unceremoniously dubbed "the godparents".
Just curious.
But I was wondering if Godparents could be named after the baptism if there was not time to choose them at the time of the baptism. For example: My friends little daughter was born with a birth defect and was rushed into surgery soon after the birth. There must not have been time to get a priest there because Daddy did a quicky baptism right before they took her for her surgery (This is not allowable in my tradition but it melts my heart just thinking about how sweet that is
) and there are no shortage of priests here. it was a Catholic hospital for crying out loud, so everything must have happened REALLY fast. SOOOOOO, that brings me to the question....in an event like that would godparents be named later? if so is there any sort of special thing they must to be official or are they just unceremoniously dubbed "the godparents".Just curious.
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