On April 3, 2010, April died with Christ and through the waters of Baptism, she was born into a new life with Christ in His Church! She received the sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Communion and now...she is Catholic!
What a tremendous time to be Catholic too! The entire Church witnessed this tremendous young lady journey for nearly a year as she received instruction through the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) program. And it is because of her "yes" that we all could gloriously celebrate this new birth on the night that all time stands still. She was the only Catechumen preparing for Baptism and full communion with the Catholic Church. She received many many graces through these sacraments and had so many people praying for her. I was humbled to be standing right by her side the entire way!
The pictures speak for themselves. It was an experience like no other. I was literally holding the hair of a SAINT as she was
Baptized...
Confirmed...
and received OUR LORD, Himself, in Holy Communion!
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
1324 The Eucharist is "the source and summit of the Christian life."136 "The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch."137
1325 "The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit."138
1326 Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.139
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