One of the most fundamental teachings and practices of the Catholic Church is the Holy Eucharist. The Church derives its life from the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the “source and summit” of the ...

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 ...

In the Eucharist, we know that the bread becomes Jesus’ flesh for the life of the world (cf. John 6:33). The Israelites were to eat the flesh, and be filled with bread.

Like the first disciples, we need to keep the fire of Jesus' words burning in our hearts. The Eucharist helps.

On the feast when the Catholic Church especially celebrates the mystery of the Eucharist — namely, the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the consecrated bread and wine — the Pontiff declared: “Christ ...

Under a canopy, Pope Leo XIV carries the Eucharist in a monstrance during a Corpus Christi procession from Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran to the Basilica of St. Mary Major on June 22, 2025.

By Ivy Chai The Solemnity of Corpus Christi as a memorial of Christ’s sacrificial love and real presence in the Eucharist is ...

I made out the beginning of the phrase, “Señor mío…” At subsequent Masses, I listened more carefully, and heard the full ...

In his Penguin book on the Early Church, Professor Owen Chadwick observed that, for the first Christians, the eucharist was “so deeply felt to be the essential expression of membership of the society ...

A key to Cardinal Francis Leo’s second pastoral letter for the Archdiocese of Toronto comes, fittingly, in the fifth paragraph of the introduction to the document’s nine segments.

Although “Nonnas” is not an explicitly religious movie, the film’s motif of meals as a conduit for community is certainly ...

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...