
What you need
to know for
Your First Holy Communion

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


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)
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
holds all the Hosts
that will be given out during Holy Communion
at Mass

This
is what the HOST
looks like:

(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!

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)
In other words,
The

HOST
|
is kept |

in the
CIBORIUM
|
which is kept |

in the TABERNACLE
|

The most important
thing to remember is that:
Jesus Christ
—
Who is GOD
— is
in
the
HOST

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 Him— JUST LIKE THE HOST!
This is the Chalice:

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 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,


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.”


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
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