Reconciliation and Eucharist Family Preparation 2019-2020

First Reconciliation Meetings:

Tuesday, October 1, 2019   7:00 - 8:00 pm
Parent meeting

Saturday, November 9, 2019   9:30 - 11:30 am
(This is a workshop with a parent, meal incl.)

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 G.I.F.T. 7:00
pm in church during Parish Mission.  No meal.

Wednesday, December 11, 2019  7:00 pm
(This year First Reconciliation will be held with the parish.  Children be making their first reconciliation while the parents and parishioners share and model the act of reconciliation in a community setting.)





First Communion Meetings:

Sunday, January 12, 2020 G.I.F.T.  1 -3 pm
Prince of Peace Feast Day

January 14, 2020  First Communion meeting  7 pm.  social hall  Parent and child.

January 19, 2020  First Communion children and families are recognized and blessed as they begin their new preparations. 
10:00 Mass

February 4, 2020  Family session 7pm

March 1, 2020  G.I.F.T. #3.  1 - 3 pm,
social hall.  Family attendance with meal.

March 7, 2020 First Communion Family Retreat 9:30 am - 11:30 am.

April 22, 2020  Dinner and First Communion practice 7:00 pm.  


 

Families with children who will prepare to receive the Holy Sacraments of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist for the First Time at Easter time 2020: please review the preparation expectations below, complete the Weekly Faith Formation class Registration and be sure to indicate that child(ren) will prepare for these sacraments this year.  Please feel free to connect with Director of Faith Formation at any time by emailing DRE@princeofpeacecatholic.church. ​

Parents must  also attend a Parent Information Session in the Social Hall; Parent session will be on Sunday, September 22, 2019.  

First Reconciliation and First Holy Eucharist family preparation EXPECTATIONS:

• Children must be baptized in a Catholic Church; if not baptized at Prince of Peace Parish, families must submit a copy of each child’s baptism certificate. 

• Children must be in their 2nd consecutive year of Faith Formation to be ready to prepare to receive sacraments.  

• Parents and children complete First Reconciliation and First Communion workbook lessons at home as a family; preparation for First Communion and First Reconciliation takes place primarily within the family, not at weekly Faith Formation class. 

• All famiy sacrament preparation sessions are mandatory for children and at least 1 parent:
  • First Reconciliation preparation includes 1 Family Gathering and the Reconciliation Liturgy. 
  • First Holy Eucharist preaparation includes 4 Family Gatherings and First Eucharist Mass
  • See the dates to the right; and in the calendar docs below.  

• It is expected that all Faith Formation families attend Mass every Sunday; especially families preparing to receive a sacrament. 

 All Children who plan to receive the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist for the first time at Easter time 2020 must attend all family preparation sessions with at least one parent (grandparent; Godparent; ect.) 

Mark your calendar! First Communion Family preparation session dates.
 

• January 14, 2020 families receive their First Communion workbooks to review at home . Family session focuses on the Mass Liturgy of the Word.

• Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 10:00 am Parish Mass: First Communion children, together with their families are recognized and blessed at Mass as they begin to prepare to receive the Holy Eucharist. 

 

• Wednesday, February 4, 2020 from 7:00 - 8:00 pm: family session focuses on the Liturgy of the Eucharist.  

 

• Saturday, March 7, 2020 from 9:30-10:30pm: FIRST COMMUNION RETREAT for children and at least one parent; this is our experiential sessoin where students learn and practice the parts of the Mass and the Communion Rite of the Mass.  It is very important that all children attend this session.  

 

• Wednesday April 22, 2020- from 6-7:30pm: family pizza party in the Social Hall and First Communion Mass practice in the Church.  
• The weekend of April 25/26 parents will choose which Saturday or Sunday Mass they would like their child to make their First Communion.  We are trying to provide smaller groups of children to make their own special day of celebration with their families.

 

"The Eucharist...
is not a prize
for the perfect
but a powerful
medicine for 
the weak."

Evangelii Gaudium,
​​​​​​​Pope Francis