“When I was ten years old, I was allowed to make my First Communion. Words cannot tell what I felt on that day when I had the unequalled joy of receiving my good Jesus into my heart for the first time” (Aut. 38).

THE TELLING EXPERIENCES

Normally the Spanish word “comulgar” is not very much used. That is basically used to point out the christian celebration the holy communion, the Eucharistic bread is given or received. But the verb “comulgar” means a very narrow and intimate relationship of contact and union from person to person, from destination with destination.

We use it when we want to tell, for example, that we coincide with the ideas or sentiments of other persons, “I feel one with you”. Feeling one with or communion with Jesus, with his person and with his life is entering into an atmosphere of communication and deeper encounter with Him in such a way that he abides in us and we abide in Him. And abiding is a to maintain oneself, to continue, to follow, to persist, to last, to be perpetuated, to be, to remain, to be established, to dwell, to reside, to live… lasting and continuous. It is, if you allow me, like entering into this familiar, intimate, personal dealing with Him to enjoy thus his friendship, his presence, his company, his relationship… To receive communion is a very intimate way of participating in what I want and feel to share with other person and in what he wants and feels to share with me.

The symbol of communion invites us to allow us to be invited by that one who has prepared the meeting and table, to meet us, to gather us, to make us seated around the table with the presence who has invited us, welcomed us in his house and is ready for a meeting with us. In this way, we can enter into this intimate and profound atmosphere of friendship of sharing, union with whom we express and strengthen our friendship. And after this communion nothing remains the same. That´s why before and after the communion with Jesus we make that prayer and petition…, “stay with us”, which is as if telling, “abide in us, on our side, among us… without You we can´t do anything… with you everything is possible and easy, light, bearable and simple”.

How do you enrich your life with your first communion experience with Jesus?