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Ali
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Posted: Mon Feb 19th, 2007 01:52 pm |
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Is it a big deal if a person takes communion but may not have celebrated "First Communion" as a child? My stepson (dss) lives with us and is 18. Last year our to younger kids were baptized and our older dd received First Communion at that time. After that my dh encouraged my dss to go up for Communion with her. I really don't think he had first communion when he was little, nor has he been confirmed. He was baptized as a baby, and attended a few years of RE when he was little.
I didn't really think it was appropriate, he seemed ill prepared. I expressed my concern, but it was important to dh that he do so, so I had to tread lightly. I am not in a position to contact the parrish where dss was baptized to find out.
Is it a moot point now, anyway? It's been going on for almost a year, and he has attended confession twice. I know this is not an ideal situation, and it bothers me, I only hope the Spirit moves him to do more.
Church and important days in the Church are important to him, I mean as much as they sometimes can be to an 18 yo college guy  But he's a good kid, and I'm blessed to be his stepmom.
Just curious.
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BodRod
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Posted: Mon Feb 19th, 2007 11:57 pm |
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| dd, dss, dh, ..... Say what??????:?
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JillD
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Posted: Tue Feb 20th, 2007 12:01 am |
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BodRod wrote: dd, dss, dh, ..... Say what??????:?
Dear Daughter, Dear Stepson, Dear Husband!! 
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CajunRick
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Posted: Mon Apr 2nd, 2007 07:18 pm |
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Ali wrote: Is it a big deal if a person takes communion but may not have celebrated "First Communion" as a child? My stepson (dss) lives with us and is 18. Last year our to younger kids were baptized and our older dd received First Communion at that time. After that my dh encouraged my dss to go up for Communion with her. I really don't think he had first communion when he was little, nor has he been confirmed. He was baptized as a baby, and attended a few years of RE when he was little.
I didn't really think it was appropriate, he seemed ill prepared. I expressed my concern, but it was important to dh that he do so, so I had to tread lightly. I am not in a position to contact the parrish where dss was baptized to find out.
Is it a moot point now, anyway? It's been going on for almost a year, and he has attended confession twice. I know this is not an ideal situation, and it bothers me, I only hope the Spirit moves him to do more.
Church and important days in the Church are important to him, I mean as much as they sometimes can be to an 18 yo college guy But he's a good kid, and I'm blessed to be his stepmom.
Just curious.
Ali, did you ever get an answer to this question? I don't know how I missed it the first time around. You must have posted it when I was having Internet problems.
Chances are if he attended several years of RE, he made his first communion. It is more significant that he went to communion without going to confession first, but he has since received the Sacrament of Penance, so the situation has been rectified.
If lightning struck everyone who received communion unworthily, there would never be a mass in good weather except perhaps at a monastery or convent. Newlyweds would leave for their honeymoons in a canoe, and we'd be able to float the casket to the gravesite at funerals! Fortuntely, God is much more forgiving than we tend to be.
"First Communion" is actually the first time someone receives the sacrament, so if he had not done so before, he has now. The only real difference is if someone "officially" makes their first communion, the parish can insure they are prepared for it and can make a record of it in their sacramental records.
(BTW, that was not a judgment of newlyweds or of the deceased, but of the number of people who go to communion at weddings and funerals who never go to church or who are not Catholic.)
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Ali
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Posted: Tue Apr 3rd, 2007 09:23 am |
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cajunrick wrote:
Ali, did you ever get an answer to this question?
Well, yes and no. No in the sense that no one actually replied to me. Yes in the sense that dss has not been struck with lightening. LOL I know God is much more forgiving, you just always want a bit more for or out of your kids.
All three of the kids are at seperate ends of the spectrum. Jordan, which is at the end of going and sort of listening, not really living it or only doing so because he still lives at home and doesn't have a choice. Dalton, whose goal is go be a stay at home wife and mother, is active in church and community, and a great understanding is middle of the road. Then at the other end we have Quinten, who I swear will be a priest one day. Not that he isn't every bit of a 6 year old boy. He just has this *love* and intensity for God and all things church. We'll see. LOL I'm probably way off the mark there, but he never ceases to surprise me with his insight and questions and knowledge.
Thanks Rick 
Ali
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