First Communion

Stories inside

Three example books from this collection. Every story is written fresh from your own prompt, so no two families end up with the same one.

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  Story 01

  My First Communion

  The white dress, the folded hands, and the walk up the aisle.

  First Communion is mostly getting ready. Weeks of practice, clothes laid out the night before, and a walk up an aisle that has never felt so long.

  All of it is worth keeping rather than jumping to the altar: the nerves in the pew, the family two rows back, the hands held out.

  Your child is drawn from your own photographs, which is what turns it from a book about the sacrament into a book about their day.

  What it draws on

  The preparation, the morning, the walk up the aisle, and the moment itself.

  Your child's part

  The one making their First Communion.

  Start their story

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  Story 02

  The Bread and the Cup

  Why this meal is different, told simply and without hurry.

  Why this meal and not any other is a fair question, and it deserves better than being told they will understand when they are older.

  It deserves a slow answer, working back from the altar to a room with a table in it and a meal shared the night before everything changed.

  It stays concrete: bread, a cup, a table, people who were there. Your child watches from close enough to see, which is the right distance for this one.

  What it draws on

  The altar today, the table then, and what links the two.

  Your child's part

  Watching from the front, close enough to see.

  Start their story

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  Story 03

  Dressed in White

  Getting ready, the nerves, and the family waiting in the pews.

  The clothes matter more than adults remember. Getting into them is the part of the morning a child will still be able to describe in twenty years.

  These stories stay in the bedroom for it: the mirror, a parent straightening something, shoes that are not quite worn in, and the nerves underneath.

  Then the family is in the pew and the morning is about to start. Good to read the night before.

  What it draws on

  The clothes laid out, the mirror, the last check, and arriving at church.

  Your child's part

  Getting ready, with the family around them.

  Start their story