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11th Annual Butterfly Release and
Picnic
Sunday, April 25, 2010 11:30 AM
The Compassionate Friends Children's
Memorial Garden
Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd.
Metairie, LA
Bereaved families, relatives and
friends who have experienced the death of a child are invited to attend
The Compassionate Friends 11th Annual Butterfly Release and Picnic in
remembrance of all beloved children who have died.
The picnic begins at 11:30 AM at The
Compassionate Friends Children's Memorial Garden. The picnic is a
time to gather together to socialize, to play, to be family. There
will be face painting. Families are
asked to bring their own food and tables as well as chairs or blankets
on which to sit.
You may come for just the butterfly
release at 1:00 PM. There will be a short program of readings,
poems, and music. We will have 350 Painted Lady butterflies to
give to those in attendance. The butterflies are inside pyramid
shaped boxes tied with gold ribbon. It is an exciting and
impressive sight as the boxes are opened and the butterflies take
flight! Soft drinks and desserts will be served after the release.
The
Butterfly Release is not a time to mourn for our children who have died.
It is a time to Celebrate That They Lived! Since early times the
butterfly has symbolized renewed life. The Compassionate Friends
has adopted the butterfly as one of its symbols and a sign of hope
to us that our children are living in another dimension with greater
beauty and freedom.
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CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL WALK
October 2010 (TBD)
Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd.,
Metairie, La.
In the spirit of friendship and as
a way of honoring the memories of our children, siblings, and
grandchildren, our chapter will be holding a memorial walk. We hope not only that you will join us, but that you
will also invite your friends and family members to participate. The
walk will start at and end at the Children's Memorial Garden. You will be given a race-style bib to record the names of those being
remembered. Following the walk there will be a lunch of hotdogs
and chili, and soft drinks/water.
For more information call Denise
Pezant at 504-265-0581. Please join us!!
And here are our siblings from last years Walk. They have lost a brother or sister.
PRINT THE FLYER
FOR CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL WALK
HAVE YOUR CHILD
REMEMBERED- EVEN IF YOU CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE WALK
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Candles Light the World
Bereaved Parents, Family and Friends are invited to
the
14th Anniversary of the TCF
Worldwide Candle Lighting
Sunday
December 12, 2010 6:30 PM
TCF Children’s Memorial Garden
Lafreniere Park,
3000 Downs Blvd., Metairie, LA
Sponsored by
The Compassionate Friends (TCF)
Greater New Orleans Chapter
We invite the community to join us in lighting a
candle to honor the memory of all beloved children who have died.
We gather at 6:30 PM in the Parking Lot by the Foundation Center in
Lafreniere Park. There will be a procession through a trail of
light formed by luminaries along the pathway to The Compassionate
Friends Children's Memorial Garden.
The main candle lighting is at 7:00 PM.
There will be a program of musical selections and
readings followed by the individual lighting of candles in memory of our
beloved children, grandchildren and siblings.
*Candles will be provided. You may bring a
picture or other memento of your loved one to hold during the procession
and candle lighting.*
When a child dies, you walk in darkness many times as
you journey through grief. Sometimes any light, even the light
from one small candle, can help. It takes only you and one candle
to join hearts with the world "...that their light may always shine."
Annually tens of thousands of families, united in loss, light
candles for one hour during The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle
Lighting, an event believed to be the largest mass candle lighting in
the world. Candles are first lit at 7 PM, local time, just west of
the International Date Line. As candles burn down in one time
zone, they are lighted in the next, creating a 24-hour wave of light
as the observance continues around the world. During this
time, the intense darkness of grief will give way to light, as hundreds
of thousands of candles will spread their flickering flames to light the
night in unison as all children who have died are remembered. If
you cannot join us, you can still take part by lighting a candle at 7 PM
wherever you are.
For further information, call Denise Pezant
504-265-0581
The national TCF website,
www.thecompassionatefriends.com
will feature a remembrance book December 13 for families to post
tributes.
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THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS