First Communion Banners
I'm a bit concerned about the number of readers who are reaching my site because it came up on the list when they were searching the web for help in making First Communion Banners.
They don't stick around, which is understandable, since I am of NO help with First Communion Banners -- no patterns here, guys! Indeed, no pictures of our now finished First Communion Pew Banner. None whatsoever. All I'll say is, it's simple. It's made out of felt. It involved no sewing. I used the kit they sold me, created to make a First Communion Pew Labeling Banner with the least amount of fuss. It has the family name on it. It has some meaningful symbols. It is colorful.
What concerns me about the people coming by my site looking for help making the Pew Labeling Banners is that either they have had no handy simple easy-peasy First Communion Pew Labeling Banner Kit available to them, and are all worried about making one, OR they did have a handy simple easy-peasy First Communion Pew Labeling Banner Kit available to them, and they didn't want to use it cause it wasn't fancy enough, and hence are right in line to be using the First Communion Pew Labeling Banner as an Occasion of Sin, as we have been warned about by our Faith Formation Leader.
I'm curious, though -- what, besides my own extremely unhelpful site, are you likely to find, should you go googling for these banners? Let's just see.
I'll tell you what, you find many many humans way more helpful than me.
Here, for instance, is a lovely example of the felt-and gold-braid type of banner. Notice, however, that it cannot be used to label the pew the family is using, as the family's name isn't on it. Indeed, I see that in many parishes, the banners (when did this personal family banner obsession start? we didn't use them in the Middle Ages, I'll tell you that, cause if we did, I'd have seen them show up in various account books) are used not to label the pews, but to decorate the church.
Ok, then, let's refine the search and see what we get.
Oooh, look -- over at St. Monica's all the families get together and have a banner making evening. Hmm. Better or worse than doing it yourself in your own home? Worse, I think, but then I'm fairly anti-social.
Ah, here's me.
Well, this is getting us nowhere. Let's try an image search:
Ha! Here we go!
Lauren's banner has been made out of felt, I see.
Dillon's is also felt.
Cody's, on the other hand, is a snazzy satin number. NOT made from a kit. Cody's mom is stylin'.
I learn something everyday. I had NO idea that this whole Pew Labeling enterprise was so -- well, enterprising.
This sort of thing happens to me continually. When the child was baptized, for instance, I found that I was completely out of touch with Roman Catholic life as it is lived in my parish, at least -- and I bet it's true across the States. Maybe the world.
I knew we'd gotten rid of Limbo (insofar as we'd ever had it at all), so the need to baptize the child immediately upon his exiting the womb had lost its urgency, but nevertheless, I was under the impression that we should be baptizing him as quickly as possible, without getting all medieval about it, and so I scheduled his baptism as soon as possible after his birth, which was, I think, about a month, causing me a little anxiety, but not much, on account of I did indeed understand that he didn't have to get rescued from the threat of eternal limbo should he die all of a sudden.
But what I did NOT understand was that I was supposed to be scheduling the baptism for the maximum photo opportunity, which a baby with colic at one month old does not provide. I swear, he was not only the youngest baby at the monthly baby baptizing ceremony, he was by FAR the youngest -- everybody else was about a year old, and cute. My child was little and wrinkled and screaming.
Oh, well. Now he's having his first communion, and we have to figure out how to dress him.
We have to figure this out quickly, since the ceremony's this weekend. And we know, we just know, that we're going to figure out what he needs to wear, by the method of thinking it through, and then we'll be all wrong.
Sam! I know! Let's google for pictures! Here's one. We need a dark suit. (And now let us have a little moment of thankfulness that we don't need to go find a tea-length wedding dress.)
They don't stick around, which is understandable, since I am of NO help with First Communion Banners -- no patterns here, guys! Indeed, no pictures of our now finished First Communion Pew Banner. None whatsoever. All I'll say is, it's simple. It's made out of felt. It involved no sewing. I used the kit they sold me, created to make a First Communion Pew Labeling Banner with the least amount of fuss. It has the family name on it. It has some meaningful symbols. It is colorful.
What concerns me about the people coming by my site looking for help making the Pew Labeling Banners is that either they have had no handy simple easy-peasy First Communion Pew Labeling Banner Kit available to them, and are all worried about making one, OR they did have a handy simple easy-peasy First Communion Pew Labeling Banner Kit available to them, and they didn't want to use it cause it wasn't fancy enough, and hence are right in line to be using the First Communion Pew Labeling Banner as an Occasion of Sin, as we have been warned about by our Faith Formation Leader.
I'm curious, though -- what, besides my own extremely unhelpful site, are you likely to find, should you go googling for these banners? Let's just see.
I'll tell you what, you find many many humans way more helpful than me.
Here, for instance, is a lovely example of the felt-and gold-braid type of banner. Notice, however, that it cannot be used to label the pew the family is using, as the family's name isn't on it. Indeed, I see that in many parishes, the banners (when did this personal family banner obsession start? we didn't use them in the Middle Ages, I'll tell you that, cause if we did, I'd have seen them show up in various account books) are used not to label the pews, but to decorate the church.
Ok, then, let's refine the search and see what we get.
Oooh, look -- over at St. Monica's all the families get together and have a banner making evening. Hmm. Better or worse than doing it yourself in your own home? Worse, I think, but then I'm fairly anti-social.
Ah, here's me.
Well, this is getting us nowhere. Let's try an image search:
Ha! Here we go!
Lauren's banner has been made out of felt, I see.
Dillon's is also felt.
Cody's, on the other hand, is a snazzy satin number. NOT made from a kit. Cody's mom is stylin'.
I learn something everyday. I had NO idea that this whole Pew Labeling enterprise was so -- well, enterprising.
This sort of thing happens to me continually. When the child was baptized, for instance, I found that I was completely out of touch with Roman Catholic life as it is lived in my parish, at least -- and I bet it's true across the States. Maybe the world.
I knew we'd gotten rid of Limbo (insofar as we'd ever had it at all), so the need to baptize the child immediately upon his exiting the womb had lost its urgency, but nevertheless, I was under the impression that we should be baptizing him as quickly as possible, without getting all medieval about it, and so I scheduled his baptism as soon as possible after his birth, which was, I think, about a month, causing me a little anxiety, but not much, on account of I did indeed understand that he didn't have to get rescued from the threat of eternal limbo should he die all of a sudden.
But what I did NOT understand was that I was supposed to be scheduling the baptism for the maximum photo opportunity, which a baby with colic at one month old does not provide. I swear, he was not only the youngest baby at the monthly baby baptizing ceremony, he was by FAR the youngest -- everybody else was about a year old, and cute. My child was little and wrinkled and screaming.
Oh, well. Now he's having his first communion, and we have to figure out how to dress him.
We have to figure this out quickly, since the ceremony's this weekend. And we know, we just know, that we're going to figure out what he needs to wear, by the method of thinking it through, and then we'll be all wrong.
Sam! I know! Let's google for pictures! Here's one. We need a dark suit. (And now let us have a little moment of thankfulness that we don't need to go find a tea-length wedding dress.)
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