Namings

A welcome, a naming ceremony: the occasion to bestow your chosen name upon a little child. This is when congratulations are due. Congratulations to both parents and godparents, guardians, grandparents and ‘greats’, coming together to officially welcome a ‘newborn.’ There are some lovely readings, some beautiful prose, most appropriate to incorporate in a naming ceremony.

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‘Children are half of our population and all of our future. Each child is an adventure into a better life; an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.’
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A naming gives each little person an identity; it’s a time to celebrate; with joy, love and laughter. It’s the moment to toast the birth of your precious child.

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One perhaps ‘so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; (one able) to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses … for each child has a fairy god-mother in his/her own soul

— Francis Thompson and William Blake
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