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Finding a spot
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Tim and Jonas pick a chapel spot. Stephen carries the PortaAltar with Lynette.
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Assembling the Chapel
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Calling the Wards - Raphael
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Michael
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Gabriel - facing the Basin full of water
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Uriel
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Start of the service. Note to other AJC clergy –I'm not properly vested because we're about to wade into a river and I don't want a wet, muddy alb.
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Baptismal procession from the chapel to the stream
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The "naked" baptizand
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Anointing
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Blessing the Nepean
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If it's not treacherous, it's not a baptism - in my view.
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