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Congratulations Benjamin Eli's on your 1st Holy Communion at Tellers Next Door Restaurant with Lauren Taylor Floral Elegance @laurentaylor.fe

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Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/16/communion-day-on-patrick-street/
#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/16/communion-day-on-patrick-street/
#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/16/communion-day-on-patrick-street/
#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/16/communion-day-on-patrick-street/
#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/16/communion-day-on-patrick-street/
#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Communion Day on Patrick Street

This was twenty years ago on St. Patrick Street, Cork. Not in December obviously, but in May when children all over the country were celebrating their first communion.

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#2005 #Canon20D #Catholic #childhood #Cork #family #FirstCommunion #Ireland #IrishTraditions #PatrickStreet #Photo #Photography #StreetPhotography #tradition

Quote of the day, 29 May: Blessed Elia of St. Clement Fracasso

On the night before her First Communion—7 May 1911—young Teodora Fracasso had a mysterious dream that she revealed only years later: the Servant of God Thérèse of the Child Jesus, not yet canonized at the time, appeared to her and said prophetically, “You will be a nun like me.”

The next day, 8 May, Teodora received the Eucharist for the first time. She would later describe it this way:

“Enveloped in a cloud of incense that seemed to hide me from the world, I drew near for the first time to the Banquet of the Angels… I believed I was in Heaven, enjoying the embrace of the good God… I felt the delicate and tender kiss of love from Jesus touch my forehead like a lily petal… my exiled heart seemed ready to break and fly into the arms of Eternal Love… I did not know whether it was the Heart of the good Jesus beating within me, or mine, lost in Him.”

From her earliest years, God spoke to Teodora’s soul in the language of love and dream, preparing that hidden garden which would one day blossom in the silence of Carmel.

Blessed Elia of Saint Clement

From a Triduum of Prayer in honor of Blessed Elia

Note: Blessed Elia of St. Clement received her First Communion on 8 May 1911 at age 10.

Translation from the Italian text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Blessed Elia of St. Clement holds her profession cross in this photo from the Carmel of St. Joseph in Bari, Italy. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

#BlessedEliaOfStClement #CarmelOfBari #FirstCommunion #love #spiritualChildhood #StThereseOfLisieux #TeodoraFracasso

Quote of the day, 30 April: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

Would you please send me during the next few days the muslin that’s left from our first Communion dresses, and if there’s not very much of it, that dotted muslin that’s in a box in the attic (still to be delivered to Mother Sub-Prioress).

It’s for Saint Germaine, I’ll tell you about it (I’ll return it to you afterward).

Adieu, I only have time to kiss you before going to sleep.

In union, we have our Heaven within us, let’s live it.

I love you much, my Guite.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Letter 120 to her sister Marguerite Chevignard
Shortly before 15 June 1902

Note: In this letter, Elizabeth and her sister Guite plan a special gift for Mother Germaine, Prioress at the Carmel of Dijon. The gift would be presented on the feast day on her feast day. Elizabeth had made her First Holy Communion on 19 April 1891 at Saint Michael’s Parish in Dijon. Madame Catez later recalled“I will never forget the emotions of 19 April: I saw my child so recollected, so earnest, her tears did not cease to flow and I understood that God had taken possession of that heart so pure, so loving, which no longer would beat except for him” (De Meester, C 2017, Rien Moins Que Dieu).

de Meester, C 2017, Rien moins que Dieu: sainte Elisabeth de la Trinité, Presses de la Renaissance, Paris.

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2003, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity volume 2: Letters from Carmel, translated from the French by Nash, A, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Detailed portrait of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, taken on 8 June 1891 after her Confirmation. Although photographed on the day of her Confirmation, the portrait also commemorates her First Holy Communion, received earlier on 19 April 1891. The setting is the garden of the Catez family home in Dijon. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (used by permission).

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How can I live more consciously today in the “Heaven within me” that Elizabeth describes?
⬦ Join the conversation in the comments.

#FeastDay #FirstCommunion #heaven #MadameCatez #MargueriteChevignard #MotherGermaine #StElizabethOfTheTrinity

Late 1970s for #ThrowbackThursday and this must have been my First Communion, raised Catholic like I was and attending a Catholic school like I did. Nice try, church, but you didn't sink your claws deep enough into me for it to stick.

#Photography #TBT #1970s #70s #Seventies #Communion #FirstCommunion #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Religion

Late 1970s for #ThrowbackThursday and this must have been my First Communion, raised Catholic like I was and attending a Catholic school like I did. Nice try, church, but you didn't sink your claws deep enough into me for it to stick.

#Photography #TBT #1970s #70s #Seventies #Communion #FirstCommunion #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Religion

Late 1970s for #ThrowbackThursday and this must have been my First Communion, raised Catholic like I was and attending a Catholic school like I did. Nice try, church, but you didn't sink your claws deep enough into me for it to stick.

#Photography #TBT #1970s #70s #Seventies #Communion #FirstCommunion #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Religion

Late 1970s for #ThrowbackThursday and this must have been my First Communion, raised Catholic like I was and attending a Catholic school like I did. Nice try, church, but you didn't sink your claws deep enough into me for it to stick.

#Photography #TBT #1970s #70s #Seventies #Communion #FirstCommunion #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Religion

Late 1970s for #ThrowbackThursday and this must have been my First Communion, raised Catholic like I was and attending a Catholic school like I did. Nice try, church, but you didn't sink your claws deep enough into me for it to stick.

#Photography #TBT #1970s #70s #Seventies #Communion #FirstCommunion #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Religion

It is impossible to describe what took place between my soul and Jesus. I asked Jesus a thousand times that He would take me, and I experienced His dear voice for the first time. “Oh Jesus I love You, I adore You!”

I prayed to Him for everybody. I felt the Virgin near me. Oh, how my heart expanded! For the first time, I experienced a delicious peace.

From that time, the dear Jesus spoke to me, and I spent entire hours conversing with Him. That is the reason I enjoyed being alone. He went on teaching me how I should suffer and not complain and about intimate union with Him. Then He told me that He wanted me for Himself, that He would like me to become a Carmelite.

Ah! Mother, you cannot imagine what Jesus was doing in my soul. At that time, I did not live in myself. It was Jesus who was living in me.

Saint Teresa of the Andes

From her autobiographical writings at age 15

Note: St. Teresa of the Andes made her First Holy Communion on 11 September 1910 in the chapel of Sacred Heart private school in Santiago. Bishop Ramón Ángel Jara Ruz presided at Holy Mass.

of the Andes, T 2003, The Writings of Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes: An Abridgement, translated from the Spanish by Father Michael D. Griffin, OCD, New Life Publishing Company.

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/09/10/andes-1commun/

#alone #FirstCommunion #Jesus #love #mysticalExperience #peace #soul #StTeresaOfTheAndes #suffer #union #voice

Budapest, 1961. I have chosen this photo because it is first in the Fortepan collection. Since its establishment in 2010 here are now some 189,000 photos in the archive, all freely available. But this is number 1!

The young girl in this photo is dressed for her first communion - a reminder that communist countries, like Hungary and Poland, still had very strong religious observance from both Catholics and Protestants.

Source: Fortepan [1] / Fortepan

#fortepan #Budapest #FirstCommunion

Budapest, 1961. I have chosen this photo because it is first in the Fortepan collection. Since its establishment in 2010 here are now some 189,000 photos in the archive, all freely available. But this is number 1!

The young girl in this photo is dressed for her first communion - a reminder that communist countries, like Hungary and Poland, still had very strong religious observance from both Catholics and Protestants.

Source: Fortepan [1] / Fortepan

#fortepan #Budapest #FirstCommunion

Budapest, 1961. I have chosen this photo because it is first in the Fortepan collection. Since its establishment in 2010 here are now some 189,000 photos in the archive, all freely available. But this is number 1!

The young girl in this photo is dressed for her first communion - a reminder that communist countries, like Hungary and Poland, still had very strong religious observance from both Catholics and Protestants.

Source: Fortepan [1] / Fortepan

#fortepan #Budapest #FirstCommunion

Budapest, 1961. I have chosen this photo because it is first in the Fortepan collection. Since its establishment in 2010 here are now some 189,000 photos in the archive, all freely available. But this is number 1!

The young girl in this photo is dressed for her first communion - a reminder that communist countries, like Hungary and Poland, still had very strong religious observance from both Catholics and Protestants.

Source: Fortepan [1] / Fortepan

#fortepan #Budapest #FirstCommunion

Budapest, 1961. I have chosen this photo because it is first in the Fortepan collection. Since its establishment in 2010 here are now some 189,000 photos in the archive, all freely available. But this is number 1!

The young girl in this photo is dressed for her first communion - a reminder that communist countries, like Hungary and Poland, still had very strong religious observance from both Catholics and Protestants.

Source: Fortepan [1] / Fortepan

#fortepan #Budapest #FirstCommunion

Who can possibly say what I felt last night? … from time to time I woke up and looked to see if the dawn was breaking, then I fell asleep and in the placid sleep I seemed to hear a harmony of heaven, a song of Angels … and my heart, purified by the most precious blood of the Nazarene, enjoyed these heavenly delights […] The little birds with their songful trills announced the dawn of a day, dear to my heart; one of those most beautiful and unforgettable days of my life … Wrapped in a cloud of incense that seemed to hide me from creation, I approached the Banquet of Angels for the first time … As soon as I received the white Host in my palpitating heart, everything disappeared … I thought I was in Heaven enjoying the embraces of the good Lord … I felt Jesus’ delicate and tender kiss of love brushing against my forehead like a lily petal … indeed I was lost like an atom in the air, or rather like a dewdrop thrown into the ocean. My exiled heart seemed to break, and to fly away into the bosom of Eternal love … so that I knew not whether it was the heart of the good Jesus that throbbed in me, or mine lost in Him.

Blessed Elia of Saint Clement

From the writings of Blessed Elia

Note: Blessed Elia of St. Clement, a Discalced Carmelite nun, received her First Communion on 8 May 1911 at age 10 after a long preparation. The night before, she dreamed of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus who predicted: “You will be a nun like me.”

Translation from the Italian text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Blessed Elia of St. Clement holds her profession cross in this photo from the Carmel of St. Joseph in Bari, Italy. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/05/07/elia-1commu/

#BlessedEliaOfStClement #CarmelOfBari #FirstCommunion #love #spiritualChildhood #StThereseOfLisieux #TeodoraFracasso

Dear little mother, it is with pleasure that I see the new year arrive in order to renew my wishes for a happy new year.

I wish you everything you could possibly desire, and now that I’m older I’m going to be a sweet, patient, obedient, diligent little girl who never gets angry.

First of all, since I am the elder, I must set an example for my little sister; I will not upset her anymore.

Finally, I will be a little role model and you will be able to say that you are the happiest of mothers, and since I hope that I will soon have the happiness of making my First Communion, I will be even more well behaved because I will pray to God to make me even better.

I leave you, my dear little mother, with a heartfelt kiss.

Elisabeth Catez
Dijon, December 31, 1889

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Letter 5

Note: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity made her First Holy Communion on 19 April 1891 in St. Michael Parish, Dijon.

What struck me in that first meeting was her gentleness and friendliness, which contrasted with her intense nature and her fiery gaze. I also saw that she was the heart and soul of this meeting, which was to be followed by so many others.

As I was amazed by her even temperament and gentleness, my mother spoke to Madame Catez, who then confided to her that, until the year before her first Holy Communion, Elisabeth was angry every day. It was then that her mother told her that a real change was needed to make that First Communion she so desired.

A transformation immediately began to be visible in her character and when I got to know her, it seemed impossible that she could have been so different. As I was quick to get upset myself, I understood that I had to imitate her and make great efforts to become like her, gentle and humble.

Louise Recoing

Récits Biographiques 49, nos. 2–3

Note: Louise was a good friend of Elizabeth, whom Louise met not long before the saint was 12 years old.

de Meester, C 2017, Rien moins que Dieu: sainte Elisabeth de la Trinité, Presses de la Renaissance, Paris.

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity on her first Communion day. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/04/18/sabeth-primcomm/

#anger #childhood #familyLife #FirstCommunion #inspiration #selfControl #StElizabethOfTheTrinity #transformation