Joseph Ratzinger wrote in his 1967 essay “Is the Eucharist a Sacrifice?” that “a life of faith…and love for one’s brethren is depicted as the true worship, without which external worship ...

The Christian answer begins with the central belief of Christianity, the mystery of the Trinity, and with the central act of Christianity, the Eucharist. Christian sacrifice has three ...

A recording of a debate about Jesus’ presence in the elements of the Lord’s Supper has inspired a new round of discussion ...

Through eating the sacrifice, the Jews were united with God, entered into communion with God and renewed their covenant commitment. So too with Christians. The Eucharist, more than a ...

The Eucharist and Ecumenism is organized around the four nodes of controversy—presence, sacrifice, priesthood and social significance. In his discussion of each of these issues he deftly identifies ...

We too are called to assemble for the sacrifice of the Eucharist, the new Passover celebration. Then they were to take the blood of the lamb and put it on the lintels and doorposts where they were ...

Now, The Year of the Eucharist , guided and introduced by ... so that they make this wonderful Sacrifice and Sacrament the center of their lives. The Holy Father has left the execution of this ...

And many do not even recognize the Eucharist as the perfect sacrifice — Jesus. So in this age of catechetical amnesia, Mike Aquilina gives us a refresher course in The Eucharist Foretold ...

The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: “The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered ...

The Eucharist, as sacrifice, asks us to become the bread of brokenness and the chalice of vulnerability." Further, Eucharistic Prayer 4 petitions God "to make of us an eternal offering to you ...