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 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 becomes
the Body of Jesus Christ
and the wine
becomes the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Really
and truly!
When we go to Holy Mass the priest consecrates
(offers up to Jesus’ Father in Heaven)
the
bread and wine:
and after he does,
they
then become the Body and Blood
of Jesus!
In other words,
AFTER
the priest CONSECRATES
it:
It is no longer bread.
It is no longer wine.
It becomes Jesus
Himself!—
hidden under the appearance of bread and wine,
(which still looks like bread
and wine) — but is really
the BODY and the BLOOD of Jesus
Who gives Himself to us in HOLY
COMMUNION.
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, You 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 to you the Holy Eucharist, the
Body of Jesus at Mass
And when you receive Holy Communion, the
priest says to you:
“The Body of Christ”.
After you open your mouth and hold out your
tongue, the priest places the Host on your tongue,
and 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 will 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
