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LeeAnn
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Posted: March 04 2010 at 10:48am \| IP Logged

Bread of Life: Preparing for First Confession and First Communion by Fr Martin Edwards

Has anyone used this or seen it? It appears to have been originally published in the UK by Gracewing.

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Posted: March 04 2010 at 11:30am \| IP Logged

LeeAnn, I have not seen it. But Gracewing is a very solid Catholic publishing house. Joanna Bogle and Inos Biffi books are some of their authors. I haven't seen anything yet that is questionable, and from their own site:

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Parents, priests, catechists - all have a most serious responsibility to do everything to ensure that our children are well instructed. The Bread of Life is a valuable resource for any home, parish and school that wishes to impart the fullness of the faith to children preparing for their First Confession and their first Holy Communion.

'Sadly, some of the catechetical material produced in the last few decades has been lamentably inadequate for this necessary task. That is why we should be so grateful for the publication of The Bread of Life. There has long been a real pastoral need for a preparation course like this: orthodox, pious (in the true sense) and practical - fully Catholic. It will be a valuable resource in any home, parish and school that wishes to impart the fullness of the faith to their children...' Fr Ignatius Harrison, C.O.

It looks like it could be a really good tool.

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I found some other blog reviews and it looks like a nice resource--apparently the illustrations are photos from the London Oratory and newly commissioned icons. !!! Sounds good to me. I ordered a copy from LTP and hopefully will get it by the end of next week. There are fifteen lessons in the book; I'm not sure how they're divided.

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I'm reading through Bread of Life again--thinking to use with my 7yo preparing for First Communion this year. I'll let you know how it goes!

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Posted: Oct 11 2013 at 10:44am \| IP Logged

LeeAnn wrote:

We went to church at the Oratory when we lived in London for a semester. Wonderful and beautiful church with a lively Latin Mass.

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I am working through this very simple but rich book slowly with my 7yo son. We are only up to lesson five, but I am really happy with it, it's just what he needed.

I bought a blank journal (a medium sized main lesson book) and put his name and a title on the front. Inside, I pasted a picture of my son and I together with a little note of dedication. There are 32 blank pages in the journal, and fifteen lessons in the book.

I made a photocopy of each lesson's icon/painting. I only paste the icon into his journal as we go, so that the new item holds his interest.

I decided to go this route since having him stare at the book as I read the text wasn't very practical and I didn't want him to read ahead in the book, only listen to me tell the story and look at the picture while I read.

I start the lesson (which takes all of five to ten minutes) with the picture. I ask him to look at it and tell me what he sees. These are not just fine art, but they are very full of symbols, characters and interesting things to talk about. We discuss who is in the picture, etc and then I read the book as if I'm telling a story, sometimes ad libbing a bit if the British English syntax is a little off for an American ear.

At the end of each chapter is a little fill in the blank type worksheet but instead of having him write this stuff out I just make a quiz game of it with plenty of hints if needed. There are some suggestions for drawing answers too, but we skip these as they aren't my son's cup of tea.

It couldn't be simpler. I just love it. I found a couple more used copies on Amazon and ordered them just to have on hand for friends that ask me about preparing their child for First Communion at home.

I plan to add photos to the blank pages as we go through the year, maybe one of the church, of him on his first confession day, first communion day, with his godparents, etc., so it will be a remembrance book as well as his lesson book.

A child who likes to write and draw more than mine does could fill the blank pages with the suggested vocabulary words, pictures of the saints, and so on. :)

It would be great if the publisher (Gracewing of UK or LTP in the US) made a set of the icons as holy cards for purchase.

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