At church only people who have been through a first communion ceremony can recieve the blood and body of Christ, but don't you think Jesus would want to share it with everyone? Why do we need a first communion, it doesn't make sense to me.
2006-08-01 11:13:58 · 9 answers · asked by Zarango 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is more to the first communion than it just being your FIRST communion. There is prepation that you must do ahead of time for your first communion ceremony. Without first going through these preparations you cannot have a first communion ceremony, and without the ceremony you cannot recieve the eucharist when you go to church. I just wanna know why any of this is necessary. Why can't we just have the eucharist? Wouldn't Jesus want us to have it?
2006-08-01 11:27:13 · update #1
Instruction is required before receiving six of the seven Catholic sacraments, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Marriage, and Holy Orders.
The reason for this instruction is so that the people receiving the sacrament, or the parents in the case of infant baptism, fully know what is happening (appropriate to their age level), and what their responsibilities and commitments mean.
Only the Anointing of the Sick does not require previous instruction.
First Eucharist, or Communion, is one of the three sacraments of initiation along with Baptism and Confirmation. This sacrament is one step further to full membership in the Church.
With love in Christ.
2006-08-01 17:20:15 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the body and blood of Jesus are tied to truth. You have to be in communion with the Church of Jesus Christ to recieve. It is a sacrament for those accept the authorithy and truth that comes with the only church that Jesus founded.
2006-08-01 11:25:35 · answer #2 · answered by enigma21 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would like to speak on this though I am no longer Catholic. Paul spoke about The Lord's Supper (Communion) like this: (I know its long but please read it)
1 Cor 1123For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me." 25In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
27Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 29For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment. 32When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
Communion isn't something to be taken lightly, when we take the bread and the wine, we proclaim the Lord's death until He returns and we shouldnt take it with a guilty heart or unconfessed sins or any unworthy manner. I dont think really there should be a class full of 7 yr olds dressed in expensive clothes making their first communion personally, I believe it can be taken by everyone who recognises what it is and has been repentant.
2006-08-01 11:25:53 · answer #3 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We belive that when we pray on the wine on the alter.. the Holy Ghost turn this wine into Christ Blood and body. And Also Christ before his Ascending to Heavens, he asked his followers to do the Communion as a memorial and remembrance of him.
2006-08-01 11:18:50 · answer #4 · answered by guy_from_there 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i may be missing something important here, but it seems to me the only reason you have to have a FIRST communion, before you take (regular) communion is because there has to be a first sometime or another.
2006-08-01 11:20:42 · answer #5 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have a First Sunday Communions and my religion is non-denominational.
2006-08-01 11:19:03 · answer #6 · answered by VivaciousandSexy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
after I took it, it changed into an acceptance better than a proclamation. as in accepting jesus in you for the first time. there is yet another one after communion. communion many times comes for the time of third grade, and the subsequent one is for the time of perhaps seventh or eighth grade. confirmation is the time u verify that your existence or your modern-day alternatives will be inspired by ability of your god, jesus. going decrease back on it, those are incredibly only issues paganism placed into christianity even as it followed the religion. rites, and different such issues as that each man or woman got here about after jesus. jesus only did the beatitudes and both golden rules, and it truly is wishy washy as to if he even did the beatitudes. 2 golden rules: love eachother as I surely have love thee, and do onto eachother as I surely have carried out unto thee. i'm incredibly certain they slipped the be conscious "your self" in there to get their needs out to bigger of a inhabitants. noone is gonna study jesus in the adventure that they don't need it. only bear in mind what faith is. gadget of beliefs designed to regulate populations and forestall mass anarchy, revolution and modify without the aprooval of it really is leaders. they are all the same, yeah i now there is better to them, yet those are the information for me. my wager is the damned have taken carry of the international and we are all kinda skrewed till the actual revolution starts, the revolution that ends all suffering. reliable success, to me it incredibly only feels like a wrestle in easy words angels and demons can wrestle.
2016-11-27 19:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Join the club, what about that religion does make sense? It all came from Paganism. They ate wafers shaped like the god that they worshipped. The Sun God. Eucherist is round like the sun. They worship of "Sunday". When the Sun comes up. Constantine became a 'Christian' when he saw a sign in the sky. Didn't repent or anything, just said thats what he was. Called all the become Christian. Pagans became "Christians" and brought their style of worship with them. Christian and Paganism marry. Catholicism. Thank you.
2006-08-01 11:20:33 · answer #8 · answered by chris z 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm
There has to be a first time, hasn't there? Else, how could there be a second, third, fourth, etc....
2006-08-01 11:22:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋