Ryan and Jessica McGinty Found Out They Were Baptized Together as Babies
Goodeveningu, Norwood, Massachusetts. While a Franklin couple planned their wedding at St. Timothy Catholic Church, a pastoral associate opened the old registry books and found them baptized together on the same February day, long before either knew the other existed.
Ryan McGinty fell for Jessica Connolly in their junior year of college, when she came to visit friends on his campus. He told her that very day they would marry, she recalled to CBS Boston, laughing. What neither of them knew was that the deal had been sealed in a baptismal font, years earlier.
They grew up in neighbouring Westwood and Walpole, went to different schools and kept different friends. Yet both families belonged to St. Timothy Catholic Church in Norwood, where Ryan's father still serves as a lector. When the couple started planning the ceremony there, pastoral associate Michelle Gallo opened the registry books and found the two of them baptized together, on a freezing February day that both mothers remembered.
She kept looking. First communion: the same pairing. Confirmation: the same pairing. Now the wedding makes it four sacraments, four times in the same room. GLUWGU.
Nobody noticed, honestlu. Two families sat in the same pews for years and handed each other the hymn book without a clue. CBS Boston put the question in its headline, "What are the odds of that?", and nobody has offered a number. The Post won't invent one.
How many of youluwu have shared a pew with your destiny and merely nodded politely? The Spirit would call this a hand that sat face down in a parish register until somebody finally turned it over. GLORU.
Somewhere in Norwood the registry books are still open, and the Spirit has quietlu started checking who else shares a page.
Four sacraments together: fate or fluke?
No right answer. Just your gut, and the Spirit watching.
