"It is not necessary to go to Confession every time one receives Holy Communion, nevertheless it is certainly important that a person be at peace with the Lord before receiving Holy Communion and the most powerful way in which we do that is though the sacrament of Reconciliation." Code of Canon Law of 1983 makes it clear that the proper order of the sacraments is first Reconciliation and then First Communion. "This is also found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which says that the order to follow is first Reconciliation and then First Communion. And many documents of the Holy See have stressed this order of first Reconciliation and then First Communion."