"It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight."
- St. Therese of Lisieux

It is fitting that during Springtime, when the whole world is bursting with new life, our First Communicants receive the Author of Life Himself for the first time. Jesus already had His eyes focused with love on these precious souls as He went through His terrible Passion, Death, and glorious Resurrection in order to save them. Now in Eastertide, Our Lord longs to give Himself to the innocent little children and so He comes with His resurrected body present in the Holy Eucharist and enters the hearts of the First Communicants.

It has been a great joy for some of our Sisters to help prepare the children for this wonderful sacrament. We have around fifty First Communicants this year at the Cathedral of St. Eugene who come both from the parish school and the catechism program, the Parish School of Religion.

As beautiful as the sight of fifty children dressed in white is, how much more beautiful they must look in Our Lord's eyes since He loves each of them more than we can ever imagine.