Is "first communion" a big deal in every denomination, or just for Roman Catholics?

Is "first communion" a big deal in every denomination, or just for Roman Catholics?

I think it is, they just change the wording. My friend is Methodist, and she got "confirmed" around the same age catholic kids have first communion. Its all the same, except for denominations that don't do communion obviously.

It's also a big deal for Greek and Russian Orthodox, and for High Anglicans. Probably also for Episcopalians in the USA, as they are basically Anglicans as well. The further away the denomination from the original Christian Church, the less importance is attached to the sacraments of the Church, and the less weight is given to "first communion" as a rite of passage into full membership of the Community.

No, its a big deal for catholics. Maybe so in some of the more similar faiths-like Methodist, Episcopal, Anglican.
In other Christian faiths-like Presbyterian, Baptist, Pentecostal- it is actually the 'salvation' or 'born again' experience that is cause for celebration. A "first communion" is always somewhat of a deal-but nothing even close to salvation.

Jesus said: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; . . . he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and . . . abides in me, and I in him" (Jn 6:51, 54, 56).

The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.

It is Christ himself, the eternal high priest of the New Covenant who, acting through the ministry of the priests, offers the Eucharistic sacrifice. And it is the same Christ, really present under the species of bread and wine, who is the offering of the Eucharistic sacrifice.

By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real, and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his soul and his divinity (cf. Council of Trent: DS 1640; 1651).

As sacrifice, the Eucharist is also offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead and to obtain spiritual or temporal benefits from God.

Communion with the Body and Blood of Christ increases the communicant's union with the Lord, forgives his venial sins, and preserves him from grave sins. Since receiving this sacrament strengthens the bonds of charity between the communicant and Christ, it also reinforces the unity of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ.

Peace and every blessing