First Communion

At first Communion, a child, baptized as an infant into the family of God we call Church, at last takes a place at the Lord's Table with the grownups. Grandparents, aunts, friends join the youngster's immediate family in celebrating the event, writes Luebering. This Catholic Update explores what a child's first Communion means to both families, the family of kinship and the family of faith, and how all of us can better celebrate and understand the occasion, as well as the meaning of every Eucharist.