Orthodox believers are called to pursue deification, or divine qualities, according to a Russian Orthodox leader. The most powerful way to do this, he says, is through the Eurcharist. Metropolitan ...

The Eucharist was, and still is, in a crystal case called a luna — used for insertion in a monstrance — that was badly scorched and blackened by the flames. Incarnation Catholic Church offers ...

Bergsma, a senior biblical scholar at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, titled his talk “Mass Conversion: How I ...

ROME — In his encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia (On the Church and the Eucharist), Pope John Paul II dedicates Chapter 6 to the “School of Mary, ‘Woman of the Eucharist.’" To understand in greater ...

A priest elevates the host during a Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in 2020. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Editor’s note: This article is part of The Conversation with America Media, ...

Migrants watching Pope Francis’ Mass in Juarez, Mexico, from a levee along the banks of the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, take part in Communion, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. (Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay.) ...

Sunday, June 11, 2023, is known as the Feast of Corpus Christi, or the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, in the Catholic Church and some Protestant denominations. The day marks a ...

I discovered the Eucharist in my college chapel during my senior year. The chapel is small and relatively simple, a huge difference from the stone Gothic parish church in town, with its deep organ and ...

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Va., carries the monstrance through the crowd for eucharistic adoration, June 26, 2021. (CNS photo/Zoey Maraist, Arlington Catholic Herald) WASHINGTON (CNS) — ...

You will know that we are Christians by our love, but you will know that we are Catholics by our fights. Sadly, one of the things Catholics fight over is the Eucharist. In his June 29 apostolic letter ...

The sacrament of the Eucharist, sometimes referred to as Holy Communion, is steeped in tradition. One such tradition concerns the bread used during the administration of the sacrament. The bread used ...

Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley carries a monstrance during eucharistic adoration at the 2017 convocation of U.S. Catholic leaders in Orlando, Florida. (Credit: Bob Roller/CNS.) Listen If you ask any ...