For those making their First Communion
As1st step filled out a PREP Registration Form please fill one out (1 per family) which can be found at www.stplagrange.com/prep-registration or
The 2nd step is to print and fill out the "First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion Registration Form" ENGLISH and SPANISH
Child will usually receive this sacrament toward the end of their second grade level of the PREP program. Two years of sacramental preparation is required, and attendance is a priority to ensure the child is prepared to receive the sacrament. For example: a 2nd grader receiving the Sacrament of First Reconciliation/Eucharist must have attended PREP in 1st grade and be enrolled as a 2nd grader at a minimum.
For more information regarding First Communion, please contact our DRE, Vivian Thomas.
First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion
The Sacrament of the Eucharist
The Holy Eucharist completes Christian initiation. Those who have been raised to the dignity of the royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord’s own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist.
At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a Paschal banquet ‘in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.