

First Holy Communion Preparation
First Holy Communion Preparation
First Communion 2023
First Communion Parent and Child Meditation Nights
CYF families will come from 5:30-6:30
Prince of Peace families from 6:30-7:30
October 18,
November 15
March 7
April 18
CYF
First Communion Retreat and
Reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation
May 6, 9:00-5:00
First Holy Communion Mass
May 7
POP First Communion
Retreat
Friday, April 28th 5:00-6:30
this is for parent and child. We will meet in the Church.
First Communion Mass
Saturday, April 29th, 4pm at St. John Paul II
Updated information for
Families with children at Prince of Peace School
In order to be able to participate in the school May Crowning Celebration
and because our Parish celebration of First Reconciliation will take place after the new First Eucharist Date,
Children will make the Sacrament of Reconciliation with their classmates at Prince of Peace. The school retreat is a requirement for this option.
FIRST RECONCILIATION at Prince of Peace
Retreat - Saturday, October 22nd 10:00 to noon - this is for parent and child. Please meet in the Church.
First Reconciliation Service - Wednesday, November 9th 6:30-8:00 or Saturday, November 12th 10:00-11:30 am (you will choose one)
You should choose your preferred Reconciliation Service via the following link. DO NOT CHOOSE A FIRST EUCHARIST DATE THROUGH PRINCE OF PEACE.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E45AFAC2BA4F8CE9-prince1
FIRST COMMUNION at John Paul II
Retreat - Friday, April 28th 5:00-6:30 - this is for parent and child. We will meet in the Church.
First Communion Mass - Saturday, April 29th, 4pm at St. John Paul II
The Parent Child Meditation Nights will remain the same:
Prince of Peace families from 6:30-7:30
A copy of your child's baptismal certificate needs to be turned into the JP2 Parish office prior to the Reconciliation retreat on Oct. 22. We will forward a copy to Prince of Peace.
What is the Sacrament of Holy Communion?
The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life." The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.
The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.
Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all."
- Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs 1324-1326
The process of First Holy Communion Preparation at St. John Paul II uses the methodology of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.
Children come weekly to journey with their catechist in our specially prepared environment, called the atrium, to grow in relationship with Jesus
through works and proclamations focused on
the two pillars of Scripture and Liturgy.
Preparation at St. John Paul II is typically a two year commitment, beginning in 1st grade, and ending in the spring semester of 2nd grade..
First Communion - What to Wear?
