Family, friends and neighbours send a story about them for the first anniversary. The family keeps a printed book of them.
Gathering is free. You won't need a card.
Put in their name, and send the link to the family, the neighbours and their old friends.
Friends and family can capture a memory by voice, video, writing or photos, wherever they are in the world. It's easy on any phone and nobody needs an account!
We write out every voice note and gather it all into a podcast you can play and a beautiful book you can hold.
Ask everyone coming to the Mass to record a story beforehand.
The cousins who flew home for the funeral are back in Boston and London now, and they can record from there.
Put the podcast link on at the house after the anniversary Mass, or listen on your own when you're ready.
You can add extra printed copies in the app, one for each brother and sister.
Small things count, like the car they drove or the song they always sang.
"Dad grew the roses at the front from cuttings he took from his mother's garden in Kilrush. They came back this summer, and I took a cutting for my own place."
"Jim cut the grass on the green for the whole estate for twelve years and never took a penny for it. My lads used to follow the mower round."
"Grandad always gave me the bottom of his ice cream cone. He said that was the best bit."
"Jim met me off the ferry at Rosslare in 1983 with a flask and two ham sandwiches, and he was there again every Christmas I came home."
Stop collecting three weeks before the anniversary if you want the printed book there. The podcast link and the book online are ready the day you order.
It was really easy to collect the stories of Mum, and it's now a book I can give all my children that really brings her to life. Pardon the pun and dark humour!!
I love Chorus! Thank you so much for giving us a chance for so many laughs remembering Tom. The family chat was taken over talking about him again with all we had uncovered. It was beautiful.
Want to write your own questions? Start a blank book
Book the anniversary Mass with the parish office a few months ahead.
Say the person's name and that you're thinking of them that day. If you have a story about them, tell it.
Yes. Start it the week of the funeral and close it after the month's mind Mass.
Yes. They can record from anywhere in the world with the link. We post the printed book to Ireland, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, every EU country, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland.
Nothing. They can each record a message on their own phone, and it doesn't cost anything to collect them. You only pay if you want the voices edited, the book laid out or a printed copy.
Start the book now and invite people whenever you're ready.
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