On September 17, 2025, I celebrate 64 years since my Baptism into the Catholic Church, a single moment that set a course for a lifetime.
Baptism is the Church’s sacramental doorway: it cleanses original sin, clothes the soul in Christ, and adopts us into God’s family. It is not a private memory but the first public act of belonging, when our parents vocally introduce us by name into a community that promises to nourish our faith and the baptized receives an indelible mark that becomes part of your identity forever.
What Baptism Gives
- New Life: Baptism unites us to our heavenly home, beginning a lifelong transformation.
- Adoption: We become children of the Church community, in heaven and on Earth; a living tradition.
- Grace and Mission: Baptism empowers a vocation of knowing, loving, serving our Lord, and makes us a living testimony in the world.
How to Celebrate these Milestone Anniversaries
- Give thanks in prayer, naming specific ways God has walked with us since that day.
- Renew our baptismal promises with family or your parish to reclaim the vows made on our behalf.
- Serve by mentoring a younger believer, donating in gratitude, or volunteering in our parish community.
- Remember the community that surrounded us then, godparents, family, and clergy, and honor them in word or action, alive or dead.
A Living Reminder
My 64th anniversary is more than a date; it is proof that a single sacramental moment can ripple across decades. Each act of mercy we offer, every choice for truth, is a continuation of that first “yes” made by my parents. Celebrate with joy: remaining a baptized child of God, called now to show what that new life looks like in a world that needs living witnesses.
If this is my last post, I want all to know there was only one purpose for all that I have written; to have made a positive difference in the lives of others.
Anthony “Tony” Boquet, Certified Professional Business Coach, A Modern Solutionary, the author of “The Bloodline of Wisdom, The Awakening of a Modern Solutionary” and “The Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, A Devotional Timeline”