[mockingbyrd]

LOL

My sister's boys (ages three and two) nearly came to blows the other day at Mass, during the consecration no less.

NOW IT'S THE BODY OF JESUS....
NO, IT'S THE BLOOD....
NO IT'S THE BODY.....
BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD...

at this point their mother had to intervene, while holding a newborn and stuck the oldest boy in between them. A lady came up to her after Mass and said "There's no doubt as to what's happening when they're here."

[defconw]

That story is a great counter to those who snark, that eight year olds, can't possibly know what they are doing when they first receive Eucharist.

[AnAmericanMother]

My First Communion story ... (hey, we were Episcopalians at the time, but we were REALLY high church):

My daughter was all dressed up in her little white dress and veil, white gloves and all, going up to the altar for her First Communion. A slightly older girl friend of hers was sitting down front, and as daughter walked up to the rail she yelled out right across the church, "YOU WON'T LIKE IT!"

My daughter didn't respond, went on up to the rail, took communion very devoutly, got in line to go back down the side aisle, then turned to her friend, put her hands on her hips and shouted right back across the church (only twice as loud) "I DID TOO!"

Fortunately she didn't add, "PBBBBBBTTTTT!"