Tim celebrated his First Holy Communion on 25 November 2007 at St Mark's Parish in Pakuranga, Auckland. We were honoured to have Tim's godparents, Mary and Justin and their 2 1/2 year old son, Ren (Julian) come from Melbourne to join us for the ceremony and to spend a week with us. The ceremony started at noon, celebrated by Parish priest Fr Barry Scannell. It was a beautiful mass - most parts of the mass involved the children - sorry prayers, readings, intentions, offertory and a liturgical dance. Every single child had something special to do. After mass, everyone was invited to the Holy Communion breakfast (actually lunch). The room was beautifully set up - with colour-coordinated balloons, plates, sprinkles, table cloth and individual seatings and name cards for each child. Very impressive! The children had also made posters about their themselves and these were placed on the walls for everyone's viewing pleasure. Very speical and very meaningful as each child wrote or drew about his interests and his family.
I could tell Tim relished all the attention. Asked how it felt, he said "Good but the wine was bitter." My boy is growing up so quickly.
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