First Penance/Reconciliation:  

     With the cooperation of their parents, our Grade 2 students learn about human fragileness and how it is always in need of God’s love and mercy.  As human persons we need to continuously mend our ways and our relationship with God as Father and our brothers and sisters in the human family, seen as God’s family.  In practicing the Sacrament of Confession/ Penance/ Reconciliation we receive the graces to resist temptations and are constantly being renewed and off to a new start. 

First Eucharist:

      Jesus' immeasurable love is made real in the Eucharist we receive, and through which HE is forever present in the Church and in each of us.  JESUS' REAL PRESENCE is the bond that unites us to HIM and to one another. Jesus gift of himself in the Eucharist is comprehensible only through FAITH.  JESUS’ Real Presence makes heaven real on earth.   
The innocence of our children in Grade 2 allows them to grasp the beauty of the Sacrament as they exclaim:  “All that I am, all that I do, all that I’ll ever have I offer now to you.  All that I dream, all that I pray, all that I’ll ever make I give to you today!”Confirmation:  
               
          Remembering the “Burning Bush”, God called Moses from the FIRE:  “Moses, Moses, come closer… take off your sandals because this ground is Holy.” Henceforth, God entrusts a daunting mission to Moses. After Jesus’ death, the disciples were in a state of shock, frightened, confused in disbelief of what had happened. What would their life be like now? Then, on the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After He said this, He showed them His hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you!  As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”  And with that He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”    And JESUS sent the disciples out to preach, to heal, to serve, and to minister.  
         The Confirmation preparation process involving parents, families, sponsors and the entire Parish, is to make real the fact that JESUS “entrusts to us” the daunting mission of going into the world to be disciples and ministers to the needs of humanity, through the Works of Mercy. Our life needs to be always captivated by the “Burning Bush” and reinvigorated by the “Gifts of the Holy Spirit”.