His Name is Kenette Clyde Fernandez, a month old baby of my friends, Leo and Cathy Fernandez. He is the second child of my married couple friends who live 3 houses away from us. A sort of neighbor.
This Kenette was welcomed to the Christian world on November 14, 2010 at the St. Francis of Assissi Parish Church in Mandaluyong where in there was a mass Christening done.
As is second father (Godfather, Ninong in our language) it is my great responsibility to look after this child while he grow up and teach him the right ways of being a Christian man. It is my duty as well to be one of the few people that he can talk with in the near future and he can treat me a father and me treating him as my own son.
That is how a godfather should be. Kenette is not just my first godson. I also have god daughters and god sons before.
What's rewarding about being a godfather is that you are treating yourself as a family man too. Despite that biologically they are not your daughter or son, they are a part of you now. They are like someone in your bloodline that you need to consider as a special person from the day you solemnly swear to God to be his second father until the last breath.
I came to realize that i have been blessed for having this children as
my second sons and daughters. I felt like God has given me gifts and angels to look at as we grow old.
I feel like there are special connections soon between me and my grandchildren. I love that idea.
While Kenette is still young, I have my promise to stand as nothing different to him and his family. I will always be his Ninong Brix and I will be there for him whenever he needs my support. Thats how a parent should do with their children. Thats a repsonsibility you
should take as you swear to be their godfather.
As the priest has told, being such is not jsut an easy task or simpy giving gifts on Christmas and Birthdays or just a mere kiss on the hand whenever they saw you. Its mroe than that.
The Filipino way of being a godfather is far more solemn for me and I always take it seriously.
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