Our second grade Faith Formation students will receive their First Holy Communion on Saturday, May 1st. And I would invite all of our parishioners to keep these holy youngsters in your prayers (and their families too) so that the Holy Eucharist may become the source and summit of their spiritual lives. When we as disciples truly come to know and understand what we are truly receiving—the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity—of Christ Himself, we then can become what we have received: The Mystical Body of Christ.
As we hear in Sacred Scripture—Saul (soon to be Paul) had the Lord come to him on the road to Emmaus and the Lord removed the hardness of Saul’s anger and hatred, turning that hatred into compassion and making him one of the greatest of all apostles. We too can be conformed and transformed into Christ by the reception of Holy Communion; we can lose our “anger” or our “doubt” or our “confusion,” and we can become more like Christ—no matter how far we are removed from our own First Holy Communions, and become the essence of Christ in our world: kindness and compassion.
Lets pray for our First Holy Communicants and their families as they prepare to receive the Lord, and let us pray for ourselves too that we may become more like Him in all that we say and do…and if it has been awhile since our last Holy Communion, let’s listen to old Kellogg’s commercial: “Try it again for the first time!”