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 ...

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 ...

The Eucharist arrives at St. Mary of the Pines in Manahawkin, New Jersey, May 29, part of the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage 2024. (photo: Jeffrey Bruno/EWTN) Register Staff Blogs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...