First Communion

Adults: See R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

Children: Must be baptized members of the faith community and participate regularly in parish worship with their families (for unbaptized children, see Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.
To request First Eucharist for your child, whether in a Catholic school or in a parish formation program, you need to:

• Enroll child with Faith Formation office in early fall of the year,
• attend a Saturday morning First Eucharist Workshop I with the child in January,
• work at home with the child with the book that you receive at the workshop,
• return the completed book at the second First Eucharist Workshop II in spring.
• Attend the prayer service/rehearsal on the Monday evening before the weekend that your child signs up for First Communion.

First Communion is celebrated at weekend Masses on two or three weekends in May. At that time, their parish community welcomes them to the community's Eucharistic Table.

Age: First Eucharist can be celebrated at any grade level, grade 2 or older. Simply make sure you enroll your child for the sacramental preparation on the registration form in addition to registration for the regular class on his or her normal grade level. If your child is in the second grade, preparation for First Eucharist will be assumed unless you indicated otherwise on the registration form. 

Are you registered in the parish?
Active membership is a pre-requisite for the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and First Eucharist.

If you are not registered with a parish, please see the pastor after one of the Sunday Masses (Saturday 5:00 p.m. and Sundays 7:30, 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.). Just wait in the vestibule until he is finished greeting people at the door and he will give you a registration packet. At home, at your leisure, please fill out the census form and return it to the parish.

If you are registered at another parish, obtain a letter from the pastor to verify active membership in a faith community when requesting a sacrament of initiation at St. Daniel Parish.

Children in Catholic schools:
Sacraments are always celebrated in the parish; not at the school. Therefore please be sure to register your child early in fall for sacramental preparation if you wish your child to celebrate a sacrament, i.e. Baptism, Confirmation, First Communion or First Reconciliation.

"Liturgical services [sacraments] are not private functions, but are celebrations of the Church, which is the sacrament of unity,namely, a holy people united and organized under their bishop.
(From: Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, Second Vatican Council, 1964)