Have you been offered to become a baby receiver? Wait to agree or refuse, for a start we recommend finding out who it is, what its responsibilities are. A perpetrator is not just a person who performs social duties in front of a baby.
Who is he?
The receiver is the godparent. According to the church sacrament, he receives the baby after immersion in the font, the priest passes the child. Hence the Slavic name - the receiver. He who accepts a child is ready to instruct him in the Christian life and educate him in faith.
The receiver is the second parent. He is responsible for the godson spiritually before the Lord. The matter of consanguineous parents is to feed, clothe, learn, the godfather has completely different goals. Raising a baby in the Christian faith, as described above.
The responsibilities of the godparents
Sometimes people who do not know the simplest prayers go to the godparents. Of course, they will be required to attend a lecture course at the temple chosen for the baptism of the baby. On this the steps to God end, as a rule. This is fundamentally wrong.
It is very sad to see how, on the christening, the recipients read the “Creed”, stuttering at every word, because they do not know them. What kind of spiritual upbringing of the child can we talk about if all the dogmas hidden in this prayer are alien and unfamiliar to the godparents? By the way, the main responsibilities of the receivers are as follows:
Learning the godson's faith of God.
Prayer training.
Visit with spiritual children to the temple.
Introduction to the church sacraments of godfathers.
Instruction in piety, chastity, and Christian behavior.
Independent regular visit to the temple, frequent confession, communion with the Holy Mysteries of Christ.
Prayer for the godchildren.
How many of us regularly go to church, know about church ordinances not from books and articles, try to live according to the commandments of Christ? Alas, there are a lot of baptized people in Russia, very few Orthodox Christians.
Conclusion
Before deciding to become a receiver, you should carefully weigh your capabilities. To admit to myself, will it be possible to raise a godson in the way that God requires? For a spiritual child, one will have to answer to the Lord; much more will be asked from the godparents for his faith than from his blood parents.
If a potential godfather goes to the temple regularly, lives a decent life, he has nothing to fear. People who do not know the basic prayers, who are in the church occasionally and far from God, it is advisable to refrain from becoming a spiritual parent.