Fr. Jeffrey Keyes of the Rifugio San Gaspare blog (and at whose parish Michael did a mission a few weeks ago) has posted the program for his First Communion program and is asking your feedback. Here’s the post and here’s the program (pdf)
Fr. Keyes’ parish, according to Michael, is jam-packed at every Mass, every Sunday, with a heavily non-Anglo population, mostly Asian and from Latin America, I think he said (Fr. Keyes is free to correct me!) . Head over there – Fr. Keyes is especially interested in whether anyone else is doing what they’re doing for First Communion.
A bit off topic.
The Refugio part of the blog name brought the Santiago Compostella camino and its shelters along the way to mind.
In the past few days I read that Jenna Bush made the pilgrimage to Santiago in 2004 when she graduated from U of Texas. She walked 112 miles at about 19 miles per day.
And there she was greeting the Pope. hmmmm
The good Father remarks: “I would be curious to see if there is any other parish in the country that even approached this kind of celebration for first Communion. Let me know.”
I attended a First Communion Mass at St. Agnes in St. Paul, MN two years ago on Corpus Christi Sunday. It was impressively reverent, as are all the Masses there.
This Mass looks as though it will be very good and reverent too. I hope all goes smoothly!
Beautiful! Our first Communion won’t even be close to that.
Beautiful! My daughter will be receiving her First Communion in three weeks at a similar Tridentine Mass. We choose the Traditional Latin Mass for her First Holy Communion due to both the beauty and reverence…
I wish I received my First Communion at a miss like the attached…
Thanks for posting…