What happened to your communion money? “I think they went for household expenses”

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Communion season is in full swing. After months of preparation, the children will finally receive the sacrament and receive the Eucharist for the first time. This important event for Catholic families in 2023 is associated with grand celebrations. More and more parents decide to rent a room in a restaurant and prepare a festive dinner for their loved ones. Gifts are also festive. The survey we conducted on the streets of Warsaw shows that many people decide to give valuable gifts or envelopes with cash. The latter arouse mixed feelings, because they usually do not reach the hands of children. We asked the inhabitants of the capital what happened to their communion money. You can watch the poll below:

“They went for household expenses”

We wrote about the missing envelopes in the article: . This time we decided to ask passers-by about it. Some people immediately pointed out that they had never seen their communion money.

They were certainly not put at my disposal. I think they went for household expenses

one of our interlocutors said. Someone else added that they disappeared faster than he saw them.

I haven’t seen them until today

he concluded. However, there were people who remember what their parents used the contents of the envelopes for. “In my case, it was room furniture”, “I bought a PlayStation” – they enumerated. Many people think that a better solution than giving a child an envelope is to buy a gift that will be a souvenir for years.

Can parents appropriate their child’s communion money?

Attorney Łukasz Skiba explained in the “We have time” program that a parent cannot take communion money from a child and spend it as he pleases. He has a duty to look after the child’s property, just as he looks after a child.

All the money can be spent, but it must be done for the child’s purposes

he emphasized.