Jesus Holding Up the Eucharist (SNV 050) Card

For 1st Communicants + Here, Jesus is depicted as especially approachable. He is garbed in primary colours--a bright blue tunic with a yellow collar and red mantle—that attract the viewer’s attention. He makes eye contact with you establishing a personal relationship. He holds up the Eucharist—the bread in his upraised right hand; the chalice of wine, in his left—not in front of his torso but out to His sides. The gesture is open, expansive, invitational. + Image Credit (SNV ): Figure extracted from an antique image of Jesus Holding Up the Eucharist from a late 19th-century First Holy Communion certificate in chromolithography, originally published by St. Norbertus Verlag, Vienna, Austria, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera.