FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. John 6:54
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION
The holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord's own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1322
Holy Communion, because by this sacrament we unite ourselves to Christ, who makes us sharers in his Body and Blood to form a single body. We also call it: the holy things (ta hagia; sancta) - the first meaning of the phrase "communion of saints" in the Apostles' Creed - the bread of angels, bread from heaven, medicine of immortality, viaticum. . . .
- Catechism of the Catholic Church 1331