so...i've chosen to proceed and become a "catuchumen" in the Orthodox church, which means that as of the middle of March, i will not just be a Seeker, i'll be someone who is studying to be chrismated and enter the church.
i'm really excited about it...i'll be chrismated, God willing, sometime in May at Easter Vigil (the Orthodox religious calendar is a bit different from the one Roman Catholics and then Protestants adopted).
so we're supposed to have a "sponsor." i think this person ends up being our godfather or godmother or something. since michael corleone turned out to be simply fictional, i gotta figure out what i'm gonna do. to be honest, i don't really know anyone from church too well, and no one there but Father Stephen has really been a spiritual mentor or anything at all like that. now i'm not complaining about that, just saying that i really have no idea what i'm going to do. now of course it doesn't have to be someone within our actual church...if michial were chrismated, i would want him to be mine. he's the one really discussed orthodoxy with me and helped me find this path...but for whatever reason, he isn't actually chrismated. and the people who influenced him (and i've hung out with some at cornerstone fest) don't live anywhere near me.
so anyway, this isn't really a huge worrisome thing for me, i'm just really wondering what's going to happen and so yes, it's in my head. i'll probably talk to Father about it Thursday...i think he said that if we don't pick one, he'll just appoint us one. which...i guess is okay, i just really don't know how comfortable i am to suddenly have a sponsor or "spiritual mentor" as someone who i never really talked to about stuff before. or maybe this is one of those deals where i'm just hung up on something that isn't a big deal, hehehe.