First Communion Resources

Highway to Heaven Series

The Life of the Soul

Produced by the Marquette University Institute of Catechetical Research under the editorship of Edward A. Fitzpatrick in the 1930’s, the Highway to Heaven series of Religion textbooks is a breath of...

Highway to Heaven Series

The Life of My Savior

Produced by the Marquette University Institute of Catechetical Research under the editorship of Edward A. Fitzpatrick in the 1930’s, the Highway to Heaven series of religion textbooks is a breath of...

Our Holy Faith Series

Jesus Comes — Grade 2 Teacher's Manual

Jesus Comes is the Second Grade textbook in the Our Holy Faith series, based on the First Communion Catechism, Confraternity Edition. This is the Teacher's Manual and Course of Study for the Second...

Highway to Heaven Series

The Book of the Holy Child

The Book of the Holy Child is the First Grade text in the Highway to Heaven series of religion textbooks.  It introduces young children to Our Lord and the Holy Family, as well as Jesus's Eucharistic...

Mother Mary Loyola

The King of the Golden City

  The book that began it all... Mother Mary Loyola had used the simple allegory of a little maid and the gracious King who deigned to visit her as a catechetical tool for many years; a brief sketch...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Mother Loyola Sacrament Prep Collection

  Prepare your child to receive the Sacraments the Mother Mary Loyola way! Mother Loyola understood that preparing a child for First Confession and First Holy Communion involves far more than simply...

Mother Mary Loyola

Questions on First Communion

  By itself, Mother Mary Loyola's First Communion stands as a monumental achievement in catechesis, teaching children the crucial truths of our Faith in a way that is both understandable and...

Mother Mary Loyola

First Confession

  The greatest challenge in preparing young children for the Sacrament of Penance lies in helping them to approach the confessional willingly and without fear. What children experience at their First...

Mother Mary Loyola

First Communion

      Around the year 1890, a rather extraordinary nun began writing a very extraordinary book: one that would help children prepare for the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist. Rather than simply teaching...

Mother Mary Loyola

The Children's Charter

  Talks with Parents & Teachers on the Preparation of the Young for Holy Communion The Children's Charter was Mother Mary Loyola's response to Pope Pius X's 1910 decree Quam Singulari, which lowered...