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Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this - I figured we could do this for our seminarian who is to be ordained soon - I was thinking of something that included the Cure of Ars.
Or any other ideas for a handmade gift for an ordination?
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I did this last summer when our priest was celebrating his Jubilee (and so glad I did as he is now in the Nursing home....feeling ill!).
I did it mainly by mouth at our local parish. For two parishes that he spent many years at, I called the current pastor and asked them to put the info in the bulletin and collect the info at their paristh. Then I asked people (and the other parish secretaries) to slip me notes or phone calls with pledges of prayers to be said or prayers already said for him. Some were 10 Hail Marys, a family rosary, a chaplet by one person etc. It turned out to be over 1000 prayers said for him! It was amamzing. I then bought a card from this company and put how many prayers and how happy we were that he was celebrating his Jubilee of his ordination. I presented it to him at his party with a bouquet of white roses (his favorite). He was very impressed. I had originally thought about doing a rose to represent a certain number of prayers (1 rose = 10 prayers) but you can see it could have cost me a lot to buy that many roses! 
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Marilyn,
Are you looking for some specific prayers and offerings to include or some ideas for actually making the "bouquet/card" to present to the seminarian?
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MaryM wrote:
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Are you looking for some specific prayers and offerings to include or some ideas for actually making the "bouquet/card" to present to the seminarian? |
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Both Mary I thought the kids could make him a bouquet card and I was looking for ideas for the card and for prayers.
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Marilyn, I am currently doing the same thing for a seminarian being ordained to the transitional deaconate this weekend, this and I came across from Alice Cantrell's blog. HTH
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Here is a Novena to St. John Vianney . You could write each day's prayer on small papers and attach to a "flower."
We've done a variety of different "flowers" as a way to put together a bouquet. Traditionally it is a card with the spiritual offerings and prayers listed on it, but it's fun to make some sort of physical bouquet to present to the recipient. Some examples of ones we have done are here.
There was a thread last year around this same time, I believe, with ideas for ordination gifts.
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| Marilyn, I am currently doing the same thing for a seminarian being ordained to the transitional deaconate this weekend, this and I came across from Alice Cantrell's blog. HTH |
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Wonderful Lisa - thank you so much!
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MaryM wrote:
Here is a Novena to St. John Vianney . You could write each day's prayer on small papers and attach to a "flower."
We've done a variety of different "flowers" as a way to put together a bouquet. Traditionally it is a card with the spiritual offerings and prayers listed on it, but it's fun to make some sort of physical bouquet to present to the recipient. Some examples of ones we have done are here.
There was a thread last year around this same time, I believe, with ideas for ordination gifts. |
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Mary - I know you have heard this from me before - but you really do ROCK!! Thank you! We love stamping and we love tissue paper flowers - just never thought of them. Where did you get your little individual flower stamps from - Michaels/Stamping up?
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That set is from Hero Arts which we got at a local stamp store. I know Archivers carries Hero Arts stamps though this set looks like it is in limited availablity. Hero has some other nice bold flowers which would be similar. And Stampin Up or companies that Michael's would carry have similar bold floral stamps as well. I like the bold/solid ones best for this personally.
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