Namings

A formal welcome to a ‘newborn’  (or more ), a naming ceremony.

This occasion allows you to bestow your chosen names upon a little child, or an  especially loved individual This is when congratulations are due ; congratulations to both parents and  ’godparents’ / guardians, grandparents and ‘great-grandparents, all coming together to  celebrate . It is too, a lovely opportunity to acknowledge ‘ godparents ‘, as they agree to accept a role in the lives of another.

There are some lovely readings, some beautiful prose, delightful and charming pieces which you may well wish  to incorporate into a naming ceremony always remembering that :

‘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.

A child 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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