As a parent of young children, the importance of First Communion was not lost on me, although I admit I had not anticipated any sense of excitement or anything beyond the happiness that my child had ...

After my mother died five years ago, I learned that she had been born to young Russian Jewish parents living on Orchard Street on the lower East Side of Manhattan. She had never spoken of this ...

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Register StaffBlogs June 2, 2024 The joy of receiving the Eucharist is abundant on Corpus Christi and in the sacramental season of spring, when scores of Catholic children receive Jesus for the first ...

Along with Baptism and Confirmation, First Communion is one of the three sacraments of Christian initiation. Most often, children in the Latin Rite receive the Eucharist for the first time when they ...

Your Dad and I stood proudly behind you as you received the body of Christ for the first time Saturday. You looked so serious, in your thrifted blue blazer and Grandpa's tie. After you sipped from the ...

What Does God’s Word Say about the Sacraments, and, in Particular, a First Communion? God instituted two sacraments for the people of God. The sign of identification with the family of God ...

Our family following Mass, in front of a statue of St. John Vianney, our church's patron Yesterday, our eldest celebrated his First Holy Communion – what a milestone in the life of a parent! I cried ...

Joseph McAuley, on the occasion of his First Holy Communion, Saturday, April 19, 1969 Some three months before Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module and left his footprints upon ...

Maria takes a minute to herself during a photo shoot before her first communion party. Photograph: Diana Bagnoli Not just a religious sacrament, a child’s first communion is experienced as an ...