Baptême
Age 9 1/2
Gabe makes the decision to be baptized.
Witnessed by his cousins and a family friend but with the absence of his extended family of grandparents, aunts, uncles strongly felt , this artistic, dreamer of a child lowered his head over a copper bowl as Pére Charles performed the ancient watery rite.
Symbol of purity a white cape draped around each child as they gaze into the Light.
Song soaring, weaving through piped notes.
The church - balancing its deterioration with beauty. Powdered cobalt on stone wall, fresh roses, pink edged in a cut glass vase, Our lady with her sculptured gaze upon the theatre, scene I of the holy sacraments.
