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Humanist baby naming ceremony

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  • 08-05-2011 1:03am
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    PetraMac
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭


    Hi, I know there have been discussions on here in the past about alternatives to Christenings. I am specifically interested in Humanist ceremonies that would be an alternative to christenings - welcome ceremonies or naming ceremonies.
    After getting our two older children baptised because of the school entry issue, my husband and I have since joined the wonderful Educate Together movement which does not discriminate against religion and non-religion. We have decided not to chisten our third child and instead to have a welcome ceremony for him at home.
    We feel that it would be better for us to have someone officiating and I think the Humanist Association would facilitate this, judging by their website. Their website has lots of info on Humanist funerals but very little on naming cermonies. We would like to know who would officiate, are they trained in some way, would they travel, etc.
    Has anyone on here ever had a Humanist naming ceremony or does anyone know anything about how the Humanist Association would do this kind of ceremony?
    Many thanks in advance.


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    Morag
    Registered Users Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    Why not email them and ask those questions?


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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    They do have sample naming ceremonies but you can make your own. They have a book of sample ceremonies. The bookshop opposite Trinity main gates in Dublin sells it or you can get it from their site.

    http://www.humanism.ie/website/ceremonies


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    bakedbean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭bakedbean


    Hi OP, where are you based? A friend of mine had naming ceremonies for his two children in the Unitarian church in Stephen's Green and we're considering the same. Link: http://www.unitarianchurchdublin.org/


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