First Communion

and Reconciliation

“For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.” John 6: 55-57

First Reconciliation and First Eucharist at St. Catherine Labouré Parish

Grade 1-2:

St. Catherine Labouré parish, along with the Archdiocese of Chicago, requires regular and active participation in a religious education program for a minimum of two consecutive years for a sacramental preparation prior to receiving a sacrament.

First Holy Communion is most often celebrated by children around the age of seven or eight, when they have reached the age of reason and are capable of participating in the sacramental life of the Catholic Church. First Holy Communion is to be preceded by the sacraments of baptism, reconciliation and confirmation. “Children must go to the sacrament of Penance before receiving Holy Communion for the first time” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1457).

Children participating in the SCL religious education/faith formation program begin preparation for receiving the sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist in the first grade. In the second grade they begin a more comprehensive preparation and are also expected to complete an at home workbook for each of the Sacraments. Once a child can aptly express in a personal interview with the pastor or his representative that they have an understanding of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Eucharist, a date may be scheduled for them to receive the Sacrament.

Curriculum: Loyola Press "God's Gift Reconciliation" and "God's Gift Eucharist"

First Reconciliation and First Eucharist Preparation Parent Handbook

Parent G1+2 Handbook Packet.pdf

All information about 1st Reconciliation in Our Parish

Handbook with guidelines

`Booklet for the Reconciliation meeting G2 2019.pdf

How can you help prepare and support your child during the Sacraments?

Walkthrough the Reconciliation Rite:

How to be prepared?

Walkthrough the Reconciliation Rite.pdf

A Prayer for our Reconciliation Candidates

Loving God, help us to teach our children that you love us totally and unconditionally.

Help us to encourage our children to grow in love and to learn how to say sorry, knowing that you always forgive.

Give us the courage to pray with our children and to share our faith with them as we journey together.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

The Eucharist may be more than we realize: the Real Presence, a Sacrifice, and a Meal

HOLY COMMUNION

The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.” The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit. Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: “Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1323-1327)

CATHOLIC FACTS

Reconciliation Catholic Facts.pdf

Eucharist Catholic Facts.pdf

First Holy Communion Requirements

A child must be baptized. A copy of the certificate must be on file with the RE office.

Attend the Religious Education Program.

Each child is required to complete the First Communion Sacramental Preparation materials with their parents.

Children and their parents are expected to attend every Sunday Mass and days of obligation.

Child interviews with DRE or catechist that they have an understanding of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

All information about 1st Communion in Our Parish

Handbook with guidelines

Walkthrough the Mass:

How to be prepared?

Booklet for the meeting G2 03-2019.pdf

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