As 8-year-old Chris Kosmicki explained, “When the priest says some words, the bread and wine change into the body and blood. He gets the power from God to change it.” Even though First Holy Communion ...

My wife jumped all over the opportunity since, in her words, “If it’s my kid ... the date those prepared and able would receive First Holy Communion. I suppose the anticipation of our first ...

It was a day a long time in preparation, this First Holy Communion. It was a day that ... since he already took to anything with words and pictures; and he was given to being quiet, anyway.

Through my young-adult years, I frequented Holy ... Holy Communion. He once wrote about what it would have been like for the Blessed Virgin Mary to receive the Eucharist for the very first time.