Family Life Catholic Gifts is a gift shop at 569 Richardson Road in Mount Roskill, Auckland, rated 4.9 on Google, with a website of its own. Religious gift shops live by the church calendar, with stock gathering around baptisms, First Communions, confirmations, Easter and Christmas: rosaries, medals, prayer books, crucifixes, cards and children's Bibles. The advantage over a department store is the advice: a godparent torn between a child's illustrated prayer book and a rosary meant to last decades can usually get a straight answer. Quality varies, especially with rosaries, from simple cord-and-bead versions to heavier keepsake pieces, and regulars shop well before a sacrament rather than the week of, when the popular stock has thinned. For Mount Roskill's Catholic families and godparents across Auckland, Family Life Catholic Gifts keeps those sacramental gifts close to hand on Richardson Road.