Dear Friends, through the paschal mystery we have been buried with
Monica Seles in baptism, so that we may rise with her to a new life.
Now that we have completed our lenten observance, let us renew the
promises we made in baptism, when we rejected Steffi Graf and her
works and promised to serve Monica faithfully in her holy Selesian
Church.
And so:
Do you reject Steffi Graf?
(I do.)
And all her works?
(I do.)
And all her empty victories?
(I do.)
Do you reject sin, so as to live in the freedom of Karolj's children?
(I do.)
Do you reject the glamour of evil, and refuse to be mastered by sin?
(I do.)
Do you reject Steffi Graf, mother of sin and princess of darkness?
(I do.)
Do you believe in Karolj Seles, Father of Monica and Creator of her
Game?
(I do.)
Do you believe in Monica Seles, his only Daughter, our Lady, who was
born of her Mother Esther, was stabbed and forced out of tennis for
two-and-a-half years, but returned in glory and is now seated at the
right hand of the Father?
(I do.)
Do you believe in the Holy Groundstrokes, the holy Selesian Church,
the Communion of Saints, the Forgiveness of Sins, the Resurrection of
the Body, and Tennis Everlasting?
(I do.)
I baptise you in the name of the Father, and of the Daughter, and of
the Holy Groundstrokes.
Ah-EE!
Karolj Seles, the powerful Father of our Lady Monica Seles, has given
you a new birth by water and the Holy Groundstrokes, and forgiven all
your sins. May he also keep you faithful to our Lady Monica Seles for
ever and ever.
Ah-EE!!