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My Nephew is getting confirmed on Easter Sunday. As I am his godmother I would like to get him a gift but have no ideas what to buy. He is a real boys boy and doesn't like anything unless it is to do with football. He is ten years old. Anyone got any ideas I would greatly appreciate it.

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When my nephew was confirmed we bought him a wooden carved hand of Jesus holding a small boy. It was beautiful and he loves it. It sits by his bed. Trouble is we bought it on holiday in Germany and I've never seen anything like it here. :roll:

 

However the online christian shop sell carved olive wood praying hands that look very nice or they do a nice pen which has crosses embossed around the middle.

 

http://www.thechristianshop.co.uk/products.php?cat=33

 

 

http://www.thechristianshop.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=ISTLST

 

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I think it can SO depend on the child and his family, is it likely that he will ever wear a neck-chain? Maybe a simple cross and chain would be good. The Bible is a good idea, there are some beautiful and very special ones you can get - I'm not a Christian but bought my Dad (who has found religion relatively late in life) a beautiful edition for his 75th birthday. I signed and dedicated it to him with a pen I bought him too although I don't think a pen would go down so well with a 10 year old. :roll:

Maybe something like a Bible for forever and something for the 10 year old now, like a new football, or a CD or something that he will also get "kids" fun with

 

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I think it can SO depend on the child and his family, is it likely that he will ever wear a neck-chain? Maybe a simple cross and chain would be good. The Bible is a good idea, there are some beautiful and very special ones you can get - I'm not a Christian but bought my Dad (who has found religion relatively late in life) a beautiful edition for his 75th birthday. I signed and dedicated it to him with a pen I bought him too although I don't think a pen would go down so well with a 10 year old. :roll:

Maybe something like a Bible for forever and something for the 10 year old now, like a new football, or a CD or something that he will also get "kids" fun with

 

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Thought you were tucked up in bed!!! :lol:

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I was confirmed (C of E), but to be quite honest, i've always preferred the Catholic services, and tend to frequent Catholic churches instead. If his confirmation is of the Catholic persuasion, how about a rosary?

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Don't worry about it Cordelia. At least you sent a card and was showing you were thinking of them on the day. Life is busy mate, and we have our own things to attend to, as much as we would like to be on top of all things, but it just doesn't happen.

 

Talking of churches though, i do love a good service, but find it rather unsettling, when i go to cross myself with the Holy Water and it suddenly starts bubbling :)

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Again on the theme of churches, but not confirmation, ie funerals, i caught up with my Scottish mate, Rosie last night. Her father passed away recently with cancer and i was waiting to hear when the funeral was. But i know what grief is like. You're in turmoil. She felt so bad that she had forgotten to tell me when it was. No problem Rosie. However, i wish i had known. Her father's favourite song was Schubert's 'Ave Maria' My favourite too! I love that piece of music, and also wanted it for my own mother's funeral, but couldn't find one that was 'Haunting' enough, to put it in Rosie's words, and mine too. As it turned out they used the Three Priests version. I wish i had known, because i have the most haunting version ever. If you've seen the film 'Prizzi's honor' at the beginning is a wedding ceremony and Ave Maria is being sung. It is the most beautiful i have ever heard, and in Latin too. I managed to track down the singer in the film (now lives in Turkey) Alexandra Ivanoff, and she was such a sweetheart. Sent me a copy of her singing 'Ave Maria' accompanied by the church organ, similar to how she sang it in the film. Absolutely gorgeous! That would be a lovely song to be played at a confirmation.

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Well, I was christened catholic and my son was too but I am not really welcome to attend catholic church due to getting divorced ( I had a rather interesting conversation with a catholic priest that my ex-husband asked to visit me ).

 

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My son attends a school that has it's own chapel and he chose to be confirmed into the Church of England. The chaplain was very confused/amazed/etc that I was agreeable to this and had no problems with it. I take him to our local C of E church and find the services much more relaxed and enjoyable.

 

When I remarried, we went to Rome on honeymoon and visited lots of Catholic churches. I expected a bolt of lightning to strike each time I entered one.

 

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Well, I was christened catholic and my son was too but I am not really welcome to attend catholic church due to getting divorced ( I had a rather interesting conversation with a catholic priest that my ex-husband asked to visit me ).

 

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My son attends a school that has it's own chapel and he chose to be confirmed into the Church of England. The chaplain was very confused/amazed/etc that I was agreeable to this and had no problems with it. I take him to our local C of E church and find the services much more relaxed and enjoyable.

 

When I remarried, we went to Rome on honeymoon and visited lots of Catholic churches. I expected a bolt of lightning to strike each time I entered one.

 

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LOL :) x Well, you think you've got it bad.... I'm Gay!...... The anti-Christ! :) However, i believe in God and that is whom i go to worship and give thanks to. I can't be doing with all their clap-trap which could verge on extremism. As said, i do love all the incense, the Saints etc as part of the service though, which C of E doesn't have.

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I can never understand men who beat up on women. They're not men as far as i'm concerned. I'm sorry for what you had to go through, but best rid of him. Hope your life is a lot happier now.

 

I know what you mean though about the hypocrisy. As said, i believe in God, and that's what i go to church for, nothing else, no matter if i don't fit into a little box of acceptability. I really couldn't care. God will be my judge at the end of the day, not them. x

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