1106. "Together with the anamnesis, the epiclesis is at the heart of each sacramental celebration, most especially of the Eucharist: You ask how the bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the wine ...

At the dawn of salvation history, God revealed our future in figures. That's what's going on in today's First Reading: a ...

"To celebrate and live the Eucharist," he said, "we, too, are called to live this love, because you cannot break Sunday's bread if your heart is closed to others, you cannot eat this bread if you ...

This Sunday, we come together as a Church to celebrate one of the most beautiful and meaningful feasts of our Catholic faith, ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

God performs a miracle in my hands every day." As the Eucharist still resembles bread and wine, "it is all to easy to overlook what — or rather who — the Eucharist contains," said Zajac.

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 ...

This Sunday's Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ reminds us that our Lord remains truly present within us and in our churches, writes Msgr. Joseph Prior.

Transubstantiation – the idea that during Mass, the bread and wine used for Communion become the body and blood of Jesus Christ – is central to the Catholic faith. Indeed, the Catholic Church teaches ...

And inside the sunburst, called the monstrance, was the Blessed Sacrament, the consecrated eucharist bread that Roman Catholics believe to be the body of Jesus. A young woman stepped into the ...

Donuts? That would be tough, but I could manage. Naan bread at Indian restaurants? That is pushing it. But the Eucharist? What happens when a devout Catholic cannot eat the bread of life?