{"id":12968,"date":"2026-05-16T14:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=12968"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:17:02","slug":"cathedral-pupils-celebrate-their-first-holy-communion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/05\/16\/cathedral-pupils-celebrate-their-first-holy-communion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathedral pupils celebrate their First Holy Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12979\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/05\/16\/cathedral-pupils-celebrate-their-first-holy-communion-2\/img_7284\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131808\/IMG_7284.png\" data-orig-size=\"1200,552\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7284\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131808\/IMG_7284-300x138.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131808\/IMG_7284-1024x471.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12979 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131808\/IMG_7284-1024x471.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131808\/IMG_7284-1024x471.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131808\/IMG_7284-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131808\/IMG_7284-768x353.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131808\/IMG_7284.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>The sun shone for our parish community\u2019s First Holy Communions on Saturday 16th May when 52 Cathedral pupils received Jesus in the Eucharist for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The Cathedral was packed for the Mass, celebrated by Fr Lamb, and the choir led the music beautifully. Each liturgy finished with the children singing their thanksgiving hymn, \u2018Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all\u2019, followed by the entire congregation lifting the roof with \u2018Hail, Redeemer, King Divine\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Many congratulations to all of those children who received their First Holy Communion and many thanks to their parents, families and teachers for preparing them for the sacrament. We keep the boys and girls in our prayers as they continue on their faith journey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12980\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/05\/16\/cathedral-pupils-celebrate-their-first-holy-communion-2\/screenshot-31\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131922\/IMG_7283.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,892\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1778940237&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131922\/IMG_7283-300x223.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131922\/IMG_7283-1024x761.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12980 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131922\/IMG_7283-300x223.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131922\/IMG_7283-300x223.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131922\/IMG_7283-1024x761.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131922\/IMG_7283-768x571.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/05\/16131922\/IMG_7283.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun shone for our parish community\u2019s First Holy Communions on Saturday 16th May when 52 Cathedral pupils received Jesus in the Eucharist for the first time. The Cathedral was packed for the Mass, celebrated by Fr Lamb, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/05\/16\/cathedral-pupils-celebrate-their-first-holy-communion-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12968"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12986,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968\/revisions\/12986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}