The Deacon, who is Christening Tumble, is having trouble with Saoirse. During the brief ceremony, we are treated to a full range of possible pronunciations. All of which fail the odds that at some point, he must surely stumble on the correct one. He’s even got me confused and now my own mis-pronunciation is for ever recorded on the videos.
Towards the end of the ceremony, the usual priest reappears and whispers to me, in a joking manner “Did he manage to Christen the right baby?”
As we stand in the presbytry waiting for the Baptism Certificate, I notice the step by step instructions that the priest has left for the deacon and right at the bottom, is written in neat capitals: “Please make sure you Christen the right baby”