Volya Gospoda to each person foreordained two guardian angels. One - when the person is born, the second - when he is christened. By a name of the second - the Saint, call the baby. It which came to God the righteousness consider the patron of heaven and a charm of the one who was granted his name.
Instruction
1. Since ancient times in Russia the priest on an Epiphany ceremony had rights of a narecheniye of the baby. Modern parents can independently choose how to call the child on the Epiphany.
2. Preparing for a baptism, the child can choose a name in the calendar - the calendar of Saints. In them any name - a name of the Saint who was canonized by sacred Church.
3. Despite variety of councils how to call the child in day of its baptism, not blind following to the calendar or sometimes the traditions contradicting each other, and obedience and love for the most sacred will become a right choice.
4. You should not be upset if at the birth or a baptism of the child there is no mention of any Saint. The time interval since birth about day of a baptism and within three days after it (from a week to one month) for certain provides commemoration of the Saint by church by which name it is possible to call the child in an interval.
5. Sometimes it is very difficult for parents to decide to choose a name of one of Saints for the child. Can happen so that there is no that name which was would like to be given in the calendar. Then the right to choose a name of the child needs to be granted to the father. Thus, the name which was chosen by parents will be for the wordly relations, and the name given at a baptism - for church.
6. Over a children's bed as a charm it is necessary to hang up an icon of the Saint whose name called the kid and to ask about participation in life of the ward to it the child. In process of growing of the child it should tell about value of his name and sacred which preserves and stores it.
7. On the day of remembrance of the Saint usually celebrate the Name day or a name-day. This day, as a rule, demands implementation of Christian procedures of visit of the temple, a confession and a communion. When the Saint is remembered several times in a year, a name-day celebrates that day which is the closest to a birthday.
8. Even having weighed all pros and cons when choosing a church name for the child by which it will be named in the baptism, it is impossible to forget also that the name it has to be pleasant to both parents. Then it will not bring upon the child trouble neither at children's age, nor in the adult.