tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post7973001163197987681..comments2023-04-04T11:00:28.668-05:00Comments on Gottesblog: On Naming Your BabyFr BFEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14554699361739289492noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-76651561467109307442008-01-17T23:52:00.000-06:002008-01-17T23:52:00.000-06:00Though it is not nearly so good a reason for using...Though it is not nearly so good a reason for using Christian names as the ones you offered, I saw one TV program—probably a 20/20 segment with John Stossell—where in applying for jobs, they would send in the same resume under two different names: one a traditional name and the other, what you called a "ghetto name." They did this with multiple resumes showing differing levels of education and solarbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17506179756577015681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-92028846332207464862007-12-23T23:10:00.000-06:002007-12-23T23:10:00.000-06:00Contrats, Ben. To be baptized Alethea Marie on th...Contrats, Ben. To be baptized Alethea Marie on the Christ Mass! Nice, very nice.<BR/><BR/>She will, incidentally, share that baptismal date with me.Fr BFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554699361739289492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-24168713456248655222007-12-23T19:45:00.000-06:002007-12-23T19:45:00.000-06:00Fr. Eckardt-Well, my wife delivered our 2nd child ...Fr. Eckardt-<BR/>Well, my wife delivered our 2nd child this past Thursday, December 20th. She is named Alethea Marie. Does naming her after our Lord and His mother pass?<BR/>Fr. Petersen suggested that I Christen her Thomas, but she wasn't baptized on the 21st. She will be on the Christ Mass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-29433119885399136292007-12-23T09:45:00.000-06:002007-12-23T09:45:00.000-06:00I don't know how I got Terence, being baptised RC ...I don't know how I got Terence, being baptised RC in 1950. Back then, the custom clearly was to name children after saints, though the naming after the day's saint wasn't at all what it once was.<BR/><BR/>Mom wanted Stephen, but Dad won.<BR/><BR/>I do know how it got to be Terence, rather than Terrence or other variations -- because of the Latin original Terentius, as in the poet and playwright.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-11165810953290311452007-12-22T13:55:00.000-06:002007-12-22T13:55:00.000-06:00I'll leave it to someone else to say whether "requ...I'll leave it to someone else to say whether "required" is exactly the word we want here; at least we can say that it was expected, and that everyone did it.Fr BFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554699361739289492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-4500590995918734522007-12-22T11:47:00.000-06:002007-12-22T11:47:00.000-06:00Anastasia said: Orthodox Christians are required t...Anastasia said: <I>Orthodox Christians are required to ...<BR/><BR/>And it is not at all uncommon among us to ... </I><BR/><BR/>Wasn't that the case with all Christendom at one time?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-88281190246111897562007-12-18T21:30:00.000-06:002007-12-18T21:30:00.000-06:00Orthodox Christians are required to have Christian...Orthodox Christians are required to have Christian names. No doubt there are some exceptions, but normally, even if they have names like Aristotle or Andromeda, they have middle names like John or Maria.<BR/><BR/>And it is not at all uncommon among us to name a child for the saint on whose feast day the child was born.<BR/><BR/>AnastasiaAnastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-59546750076890854592007-12-18T16:58:00.000-06:002007-12-18T16:58:00.000-06:00Family name. My grandmother claimed she found it ...Family name. My grandmother claimed she found it in a book, hence it is my father's name.<BR/><BR/>We named our first son the same name. He was born on June 11, so we like to think of it, sort of, as a derivation of Barnabas . . .Fr BFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554699361739289492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24933982.post-1316214381592292312007-12-18T10:14:00.000-06:002007-12-18T10:14:00.000-06:00What about your first name? From where does it or...What about your first name? From where does it originate?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com