It has hardly been a year since the conclusion of the Year of the Rosary and we have yet again another initiative of the Holy Father: The Year of the Eucharist (October 2004 – October 2005).

St. John Paul II dedicated five rich paragraphs to the connection between the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist. The same Holy Spirit who overshadowed Mary at the Incarnation, making it possible for ...

most especially of the Eucharist: You ask how the bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the wine . . . the Blood of Christ I shall tell you: the Holy Spirit comes upon them and accomplishes what ...

As Mother Teresa said of the Eucharistic adoration, when one sits and looks at the Blessed Sacrament, one is filled with the sense that the Blessed Sacrament looks back. The Holy Eucharist ...

We pray not to Jesus but “through him, with him and in him in the unity of the Holy Spirit” to the Father. We remember Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. During the Eucharistic prayer we ...

Likewise, Eucharistic Prayer III says, "We offer you in thanksgiving this holy and living sacrifice." And it continues, "Look, we pray, upon the oblation of your church ..." Eucharistic Prayer IV ...

What does it commemorate? Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper, which Christians consider the institution of Holy Eucharist, also known as the Lord’s supper or communion. It is described ...

aiming to “reinforce the importance of the Real Presence of the Lord in the Holy Eucharist.” The events in Memphis come after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in June called for a ...

Arrived at Amsterdam, the Cardinal acting as Legate (Plenipotentiary Representative of Pius XI), opened the 27th Eucharistic Congress of the Holy Catholic Church. Although Holland is predominantly ...

According to the Catholic Church, the Eucharist is the source and summit ... and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ at Holy Communion. is a Catholic belief that the bread and the ...

Jesus "shows this at the Last Supper by giving us himself, his entire body, blood, soul and divinity through Holy Communion ... deemed the Institution of the Eucharist already sufficiently ...