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What you need to know for
Your First Holy Communion

 

Monstrance containing Jesus Christ, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity

First, you have to know
WHERE GOD IS
and how He will come to you in Holy Communion

 

The Tabernacle containg the Body of Christ

Arrow up
THE
TABERNACLE

 


INSIDE the Tabernacle we find the REAL PRESENCE of Jesus Christ —

Who
LIVES in the HOLY EUCHARIST

under the appearances of bread and wine.




It is the most holy of all places on the Earth!



Why?
 

Because Jesus Christ really and truly lives there — and, not only there  — 
 

 but in every TABERNACLE in every CATHOLIC Church in the world!

 

Tabernacle containing Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist

(Tabernacle)

If you were to open the golden doors of the Tabernacle

(each door has an Angel on it, praying to Jesus inside) …


… you would see the Most Holy Eucharist in a golden cup called the Ciborium (chee—bore—e—um)

which looks like this:


The Ciborium

The Ciborium

 



The Ciborium containing the Body of Christ
The Ciborium

holds all the Hosts

that will be given out during Holy Communion at Mass

 

 

This is what the HOST looks like:

Sacred Host of the Holy Eucharist
(Host)

 

To our eyes — the HOSTS appear to be simple, small, round, wafers like the one above

 

But something WONDERFUL is going to happen to them!

 

The Sacred Host

As you see right above: the
HOST is round, white, and tastes like bread — but in fact, it

really and truly  becomes the Body of Christ that the priest gives you on your tongue.



 The
Host contains ALL of Jesus: His Body, His Blood, His Soul, and His Divinity

(“Divinity” is another way of saying that He is God).


 

Remember: the HOSTS are kept in the Ciborium
 

AND

The CIBORIUM is kept inside the TABERNACLE ...

Tabernacle containing Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist

Arrow up
(Tabernacle)
 

In other words,

 

 

       The

Sacred Host of the Holy Eucharist
     HOST

   

 

    is keptArrow right
 

The Ciborium

in the CIBORIUM

 

which is keptArrow right


 

Tabernacle containing Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist
in the TABERNACLE

 

 
 

The most important thing to remember is that:


Jesus Christ Who is GOD — is in the HOST

Sacred Host of the Holy Eucharist

the
Host is also called the Holy Eucharist
 


 

 

BUT THAT IS NOT ALL!


The Holy Eucharist is ALSO in the
CHALICE!

The
Chalice is a gold cup that holds the Blood of Jesus Christ. And not just His blood …
 

BUT all of HimJUST LIKE THE HOST!



This is the Chalice:
 

Chalice of the Blood of Jesus Christ


Before the priest consecrates the wafer (bread) and the wine at Holy Mass, they are only that:

... bread and wine.



But
AFTER the priest Consecrates the round wafer and the wine in the cup —

The  moment of  CONSECRATION at Mass

The bread is no longer bread!

The wine is no longer wine!

 

what was only bread becomes Jesus’ Body!
 

and what was only wine becomes Jesus’ Blood!

 

Really and truly!



In other words,
after the priest Consecrates the bread and the wine, 

They become Jesus Himself!hidden under the appearance of bread and wine,

 



This IS My Body
The priest offers the Eucharist up to God

 

 

PRAYER BEFORE COMMUNION

 

(Before you go to receive Holy Communion, you should say this prayer:)

 

“O LORD Jesus Christ, Son of the living God,

Who by the will of the Father and the Holy Ghost,

Died for us on the Cross

and by Your death, gave life to the world;

deliver me by this, Thy most sacred Body and Blood,

from all my sins and from every evil.

Make me always to obey Thy commandments

and never let me be separated from Thee.

Amen.”

 


 

"The Body of Christ"
Here the priest is offering you the Holy Eucharist: the Body of Jesus at Mass



And just before you receive Holy Communion, the priest says to you:
 

“The Body of Christ”


You then open your mouth and hold out your tongue to receive Jesus

and just before the priest places the Host on your tongue,

you say,


“Amen”



You have just received Jesus on your tongue, and He goes into your body and soul and you become filled with

Grace and become very pleasing to God! Angels gather all around you — although you may not see them — but

 they are there,  right beside you, singing praise to God for the most beautiful gift He just gave you: Himself!

 

 

The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

 

The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass


If you could see all that is
really taking place at Holy Mass, you would see something like the picture above.


Do you see Jesus above the Altar?
Do you see His Father?
Do you see all the Angels?



They are all there, during Holy Mass, but usually, in this life, you cannot see them. Ask God to help

 you to love Him more and more all your life. He will love you and protect you, and be with you, all your life!




The Most Holy Eucharist

The Most Holy Eucharist

 

 


Geoffrey K. Mondello
Editor
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