The Easter Season = Communion Season

As we celebrate the 7 weeks - 50 days - of the Easter season we also as a parish family celebrate with children who share in the Eucharist for the first time this year.  Some people ask why we don't have separate celebrations for these First Communions.  Really it boils down to what we believe - that the Eucharist is the center of our lives, and the the Liturgy is the source and summit of Christian living. 
Yeah but Father, really - they are sitting in my pew! I hear it all the time, and I try to communicate the importance of families celebrating at a regular Sunday Mass (which includes Saturday evening).  Otherwise we are initiating them into a community that meets only once. Now that doesn't make any sense...
Let us pray for these children and their families: that they may always know the nearness of God in the love celebrated in the Eucharistic Feast. Oh, yeah, and squeeze in - so that we will all fit...
Peace