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.

Among the large crowd gathered in the sunshine of St. Peter's Square were thousands of Italian children who will make their first Holy Communion ... presence in “the Word and the Eucharist ...