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Chris V
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Posted: Sept 20 2012 at 7:40pm | IP Logged Quote Chris V
This year is a big year for my daughter - Reconciliation and First Holy Eucharist. I was going through the materials that I use here at home with her and remembered that I still have my workbooks from when I received my first Reconciliation and my First Holy Eucharist. Oh my. Not only were the books a kick to look through, but all my original answers and written words were in there. I have to thank my mother for keeping all of these things for me. Fun to look back that far ago and remember how I felt and how special it was for me. I can remember being terrified of confession .

........anyway...... something fun to look through and something special to share with my daughter.



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Posted: Sept 20 2012 at 9:10pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
That is a great story and a great treasure you have to share.

I too love that I have school work and writing from my childhood. Don't have my sac. prep stuff though. I'm savin g the materials for my kids.

...and 30 years ago I was starting college, oh my... a little older than you are, I am...

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Posted: Sept 21 2012 at 7:32am | IP Logged Quote SallyT
Wow, what a treasure, Chris! And Mary, I'm with you -- I was a Methodist growing up, but if I'd been making my First Communion as a child, that would have been more like 40 years ago . . .

I'm in my fourth year of teaching the First Communion class in our parish, and I always find it very helpful to review in my own mind my experience of preparing to receive the sacraments (in my early 40s, as it happened!). I'll tell the kids that I made my first Confession and my first Communion when I was 42, and how I felt about it: how nervous I was before Confession and so forth. And they go, "Whoa . . . " because I'm so old, but did those things so recently! Gives us a lot of solidarity with each other.

I always have the kids make keepsake books, week by week, to take home at the end of the year -- my class involves a lot of read-aloud followed by copywork and illustrating! In years past I've used 3-ring binders, but this year I got those little Hygloss blank books from Dick Blick, with white rather than colored covers, which seem like the perfect thing. The kids decorated their covers last week, and already they look wonderful lined up on the book rack in front of the Faith and Life and My Path to Heaven books! Your post makes me hope that in 30 years these children will still have them to pull out and reminisce over when their own children are this age.


Anyway, what a fun and wonderful year. God bless you and your daughter!

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