To schedule you're child to make their First Holy Communion, they will need to attend two years of faith formation classes, as well as a few sacramental prep classes. Please click HERE to learn more about that process.
Of all seven sacraments, the Holy Eucharist, or Holy Communion, is the most central and important to Catholicism. Holy Communion is offered at every Mass, and in fact, the ritual of the Mass is largely taken up with preparing the hosts (wafers made of wheat and water, or gluten-free) and wine to become the body and blood of Christ, and the congregation to receive the body of Christ. Transubstantiation is the act of changing the substances of bread and wine into the substances of the Body and Blood of Christ. In other words, the bread and wine become the actual body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ, and he is made physically present to us in the Eucharist. When you receive Holy Communion, you’re intimately united with Jesus Christ - he literally becomes part of you.