Converts honored at First Communion - St Peter and Paul

Converts honored at First Communion

The photograph above was taken recently on the occasion of the First Communion of colored parishioners of Saints Peter and Paul’s parish, Cumberland. The entire class of first communicants, nine in number, is a class of converts. The converts are in the second and third row of the picture. In the first row are the small flower girls who marched in the procession preceding the Mass during which the converts received their first Holy Communion. During the Mass, which was celebrated by Father Boniface, O. M. Cap., pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church, the children of Saints Peter and Paul parochial school sang a selection of approved hymns. After the Peter and Paul’s Church, the children of Saints Peter and Paul’s parochial school sang a selection of approved hymns. After the first communicants had received Holy Communion the other colored boys and girls and a number of adults approached the railing to receive our Lord. After the Mass the girl scouts of one of the two troops of Saints Peter and Paul’s Church served the first communicants their breakfast in the cafeteria of the school. The Catechism Class of the colored children numbers about thirty and is in charge of the Ursuline Sisters of Saints Peter and Paul’s school.