Comments on: First Communion

By: jackjoe

jackjoe — Sat, 19 May 2007 01:52:00 +0000

Still like your pictures. Shown them to several. They love first communion picture, especially at our clinic. alice

By: jackjoe

jackjoe — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:05:00 +0000

have to hold my fingers! but really nice pictures. will pray for your son. alice

By: RobK

RobK — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:59:00 +0000

I did check out your blog. Nothing I haven’t seen before. I used to be a rationalizing, cafeteria style, “liberal” Catholic too. I used to do all kinds of intellectual exercises to justify my favorite sins (including voting for pro-abortion politicians). I gave up that fruitless struggle. BTW, I am not conservative - I am Catholic - and definitely not “liberal” Catholic. If you need an adjective, it is Roman Catholic. I accept the teachings of the Church - all of them.

I’ll send some prayers your way. Undoubtedly, you’ll reply that you’ll pray for me too - understood and appreciated. If you’d rather not pray for me, that’s ok too.

Enjoy your new blog and thanks for visiting. I put up quite a few pictures, so I hope you’ll visit again.

By: jackjoe

jackjoe — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:28:00 +0000

your first communion picture was GREAT!! if you want to know where i stand look under jackjoe blog. you may not want to. alice

By: RobK

RobK — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:54:00 +0000

Hi alice. Thanks for the pictures. Sorry you disagree, but about what part of my philosophy? Protecting the unborn? Staying true to the teachings of the Church?

By: jackjoe

jackjoe — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:28:00 +0000

my husband and i love your pictures. unfortuneately strongly disagree with your philosophy. alice

By: Adoro te Devote

Adoro te Devote — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:24:00 +0000

He “got it” because of your instruction….because it is your job to impart the faith, that he may be able to stand against the desperate watering-down you so witnesed which seeks to remove the sacred from everything.

Congratulations!

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:53:00 +0000

“After Communion, in spite of the admonition about kneeling, he fell on his knees - not even bothering with a kneeler!”

Beautiful! Congratulations to your son and to you and your wife for getting him to this day!

How absolutely wonderful!!!

By: Barb, sfo

Barb, sfo — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:37:00 +0000

CONGRATULATIONS!!! I’m glad that he Gets It! What a mess, with butterflies and all the rest.

I will say that I like having First Communion at Sunday Mass (though the families should be together) because the whole parish gets to celebrate with the children. I think it encourages the concept that Sunday Mass is important for the whole community, rather than that First Communion is some Rite of Passage that’s independent from the life of the Church.

By: ukok

ukok — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:52:00 +0000

Butterflies at Mass, oh my! Gathering around the Altar, oh my!

Rob, I can understand your concern, but as you know, it’s all about the Sacrament, and not only did your son receive Our Lord in the Eucharist, he really ‘got’ what it was all about.

I prepare 7 year olds for their First Holy Communion and we just can’t prepare them adequately in the short time we have (about 12 weeks) for the Sacrament.

Their learning really needs to be assisted in the home, and that’s why parent’s like you are so great. Parents who can catechise their children but not just with words, but by expressing in their own lives the reverence we accord to Christ in the Eucharist, the devotion to the Eucharist. These are things that ’sink in’ with children, not words alone.

Teaching about Jesus is no good on it’s own unless it comes from your heart to theirs.

That’s what makes your son’s First Communion so beautiful. He really ‘got it’.

(of course, we can teach our children about liturgical abuse too

God Bless your son!