Celebrating
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2nd Grade Children: The first celebration of Reconciliation and Communion takes place in 2nd grade. Formation with 2nd Grade Families for 1st Communion:
Older Children & Teens: Each year, older children and teens come back to the church and prepare for the reception of these Sacraments. If your family has been away, we welcome you back and will help you enter back into the sacramental life of the church. Please call the parish office for more information, 624-2228. |
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In his book The One Thing, Matthew Kelly describes one night when he held his infant son Walter in his arms and reflected on his hopes for Walter’s future. |
I hope I can teach my son to have a dynamic relationship with God. I hope I can teach him to listen to the promptings of God in his life. I hope I can teach him to appreciate how powerful it is to be fed by the Eucharist. I hope that I can teach him to live a life worthy of the talents God has given him. But how?
That night, sitting there, I could feel his little self breathing against my neck, and I thought to myself, “How will I teach him these things?” It was overwhelming. |
But then I was reminded of a friend who had told me that the first lessons of faith come through relationships. In the care and concern I show my son, by touching him tenderly and speaking sincere words of love, I have already begun to teach him about God as a loving Father.
When I go out of my way to do things for him, to help his mother, or to serve others, I am teaching him about the Eucharist, which is a powerful reminder that Jesus laid down his life for us … and that he calls us to lay down our lives for others. I pray that out of all this emerges a longing to receive the Eucharist |