The Eucharist arrives at St. Mary of the Pines in Manahawkin, New Jersey, May 29, part of the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage 2024. (photo: Jeffrey Bruno/EWTN) Register Staff Blogs ...

For many Catholic families, the day their child receives the Sacrament of First Holy Communion marks a pivotal moment in their journey of faith. The Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey wants to make ...

Lily Whittaker, 8, stood out at her First Communion. — -- Lily Whittaker's First Communion dress may have been the typical white color, but it was far from average . The dress was made by Lily's ...

A full year before your first Communion, you started shopping for your dress. Inspired by the girls' attire at your brother's first Eucharist, you begged me to Google "first Communion dress" and oohed ...

Look down at your shoes, I thought to myself. My daughter, Rachel Day, was decked out in her first Communion attire: pristine white dress, neatly kept veil and silver shoes that looked both beautiful ...

A CARLOW priest defended his decision to have children make their First Communion at masses across the months of May and June rather than on one single day. Fr Tom Little, parish priest of Askea and ...

'What God is giving us in faith and strength is helping us to give more, and that by itself will bring us closer to God,” said Sister Waffa Yousif, who helped train the 30 first communicants. Iraqi ...

When it comes to religious milestones, the first Holy Communion is an important one in some Christian traditions. It usually happens when a child is around eight years old and in the springtime due to ...

Joseph McAuley, on the occasion of his First Holy Communion, Saturday, April 19, 1969 Some three months before Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module and left his footprints upon ...

A 9-year-old girl wasn't able to participate in her first Holy Communion because she wanted to wear a suit. "They said, 'We're hearing rumors so we want to know what she's wearing,'" the girl's mother ...