A Tyne Tees Television actuality film of a First Communion service taking place at a Catholic Church most likely on Tyneside. Filmed by Tyne Tees cameraman Norman Jackson boys and girls in their Communion outfits arrive at the church and receive their first Communion bread by the parish priest watched by proud parents. A statue of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus inside the entrance of a Catholic church is followed by a painting of Jesus Christ with his arms open. Outside boys and girls in...

A Tyne Tees Television actuality film of a First Communion service taking place at a Catholic Church most likely on Tyneside. Filmed by Tyne Tees cameraman Norman Jackson boys and girls in their Communion outfits arrive at the church and receive their first Communion bread by the parish priest watched by proud parents. A statue of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus inside the entrance of a Catholic church is followed by a painting of Jesus Christ with his arms open. Outside boys and girls in the Communion gowns and suits make their way along the pathway leading into the church accompanied by a number of women. Inside the church entranceway two nuns help clip a veil onto a girl’s head and place a sash across the shoulders of a small boy. Inside the church itself parents and their children take their seats in the pews; a nun bows towards the alter. A young man in vestments lights candles on the altar. Completed he bow and walks away. Candles burn beside a small statue of the Virgin Mary as a number of altar boys followed by the priest comes into the chancel walking to the nave. They kneel at the altar, the priest crossing himself his head bowed in pray. The congregation kneels and joins him, the front three pews full of children seen previously. The boys come forward kneeling at the edge of the chancel their hands together in pray position as the priest comes forward placing a wafer of sacramental bread into each of their mouths. The boys hold the silver Communion-plate under their chins as the priest places the wafer into their mouths before passing it to the boy next to them. A statue of the Virgin Mary changes to the girls now kneeing at the chancel and the priest gives each child a wafer. Once take they each get to their feet returning to their seats. Again, the girls pass along the Communion-plate which they hold under their chins. Adults now kneel at the chancel and receive their Communion, the Priest moving along the line giving them each a wafer. Following Communion, the congregation kneels as the Priest leads them in pray. One girl sits holding a small book with the image of Jesus on the front. The film ends on a statue showing Mary holding the body of Jesus following the Crucifixion.