First Communion Class on Sunday morning will run weekly except School Holidays from Mid- September to June.
Program Dates : *Sat 27 April at 11:30am: Confessions for FHC children who missed 1stReconciliation in March *Sunday 28 April at 12noon: FHC Parents Meeting *Sat 4 May at 11am: Mass folllowed by FHC Rehearsal: ALL FHC children & one parent to be present . First Holy Communion will be celebrated on Saturday 18 May 2024 at 11am
Please don’t forget to scan your child’s Baptism Certificate to the Church . this is mandatory, If your child is not baptized please contact the Parish Church email: stjosephparis@orange.fr
First Holy Communion 2023 was joyfully celebrated last 27th May for 38 children.
Without the celebration of the Mass the Church on earth would cease to exist. This is so because in the words of the Second Vatican Council:
“The Liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; it is also the font from which all her power flows. For the goal of apostolic endeavour is that all who are made sons and daughters of God by faith and baptism should come together to praise God in the midst of his Church, to take part in the Sacrifice and to eat the Lord’s Supper.” (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of Vatican Council II Paragraph 10)St Joseph’s Mission Anglophone has been served by the Passionists since 1869.
“The Eucharist is central to the life of each community. Our common sharing in the same Body and Blood of Christ nourishes the life of our community, constitutes its norm and fosters union among ourselves.” (Passionist Congregation Constitutions Number 43)
Pope Francis during the celebration of Mass and at General Audiences frequently speaks of the Eucharist:
“At the Last Supper, with his friends, Jesus breaks bread and passes the cup round “for us.” The Son of God offers himself to us; his puts his Body and his Blood into our hands, so as to be with us always, to dwell among us. And in the Garden of Olives, and likewise in the trial before Pilate, he puts up no resistance, he gives himself; he is the suffering Servant, foretold by Isaiah, who empties himself, even unto death (Isaiah 53:12)” (Pope Francis during a General Audience, March 27, 2013)
