Eucharist aims to strengthen your relationship with your child and affirm your role as parents. It provides a brief introduction to the key teachings of the Catholic Church on the significance of the Eucharist, together with Baptism and Confirmation, ininitiating people into full membership of the Church.

Kathy Horan provides ten sessions to facilitate your discussions with your child during the preparation time. She links your role to how the gospels portray the way that Mary and Joseph went about preparing Jesus to become a full member of their Jewish community. In doing so, she links the gospel stories to everyday family events and provides an explanation of the meaning of the Mass and how we should approach reception of Eucharist.

Kathy Horan provides material for ten sessions:
- The family at Nazareth
- Joseph and Mary took Jesus to the Temple
- Jesus with family and friends
- Jesus with Martha, Mary and Lazarus at Bethany
- The Last Supper
- Jesus continues to be present
- The Catholic community
- The shape of the Eucharist (Mass)
- Called to share Jesus’ mission to the world

Here are a number of worksheets from Our Church Celebrates and Celebrating Initiation that you can be used in conjunction with most sacramental programs. They were prepared by Kathy Horan, Mary Hemmings and Clare Horan and are available as Celebrating Initiation, Worksheets RRP $32.95. The worksheets of relevance to the new John Garratt program, Eucharist, can be downloaded FREE.

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