Making our First Communion is an important part in becoming closer to God. When we make our communion, we are one step closer on our lifelong journey to become one with the Lord.

As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it, for this is my body."

-Matthew 26:26

The bread we eat is blessed and becomes the body of Jesus.

“The Eucharist is at the heart of ‘Christian initiation’, together with Baptism and Confirmation, and it constitutes the source of the Church’s life itself. "

Transubstantiation is the act of changing the substances of bread and wine into the substances of the Body and Blood of Christ.

For our Communion, we have to look our best when in the house of God, because it is a special event. Girls wear fancy dresses, and boys may wear a suit and tie or a tuxedo.

The Holy Eucharist is food for the soul, so it’s given and eaten during Holy Communion at the Mass. The bread is blessed and is taken as the body of Christ.

Our communion is not the first sacrament that we make. You must make your First Penance, which is going to confession for the first time, before making your First Communion.

The Holy Eucharist refers to Christ’s body and blood present in the consecrated host on the altar, and Catholics believe that the consecrated bread and wine are actually the body and blood, soul and divinity of Christ.