In other words, Luke is reminding us that Jesus is the Bread of Life: the Eucharist and sees in these circumstance of Jesus’ birth a prophetic foreshadowing of the deepest truth about us.

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Catholics refer to the wafer, typically a thin piece of unleavened bread, as the Eucharist, a term that originates from the Greek word for thanksgiving. During communion, the faithful believe ...

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 ...

(RNS) — There has been a lot of clerical hand-wringing of late about Catholics who don’t believe what the church teaches about Christ’s presence in the bread and wine of the Eucharist.

One Vinea survey asked 1,138 participants about the Eucharist in Pew’s language: “During Catholic Mass, the bread and wine … a. Actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ b.

Liturgically, in the rite of eucharist itself, both division and unity are central elements. For distribution, there must be fraction: to be shared, the blessed bread must be broken; for the community ...