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The Catholic Church has declared the appearance of an image of Jesus Christ on a ceremonial bread during a Holy Communion in India as a genuine miracle. This extraordinary event took place over a ...

She hisses at her daughter who refuses her Communion, but then, enraged herself, shoves a host in her mother’s mouth. Deborah chokes, grabs the chalice, takes a sip, comments that it’s actually pretty ...

Exposition can take place using a ciborium (the bowl-like or chalice-like vessel with a lid used to reserve and distribute the Eucharist), but a monstrance is most typically used. The monstrance has a ...

Usually after the bread has been consecrated – that is, changed into the body of Christ – we refer to it as the “host” to reflect the fact that despite outward appearances it is no longer bread; ...

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By Fr John Flader. QUESTION: I am now in my 80s and was a little surprised when many years ago the practice of the laity receiving Communion from the chalice was introduced, since for most of my life ...

Why is offering Holy Communion under both species the ideal? First, we can point to Scripture. All of the accounts of the “Last Supper” or first Eucharist make it clear that Jesus took and blessed ...

The Chalice of Valencia's intriguing inscriptions lead some to believe it could be the Holy Grail. Kept in a Spanish monastery until 1399, it was moved to the Valencia Cathedral in the by Alfonso ...

The cup raised at Mass is the “chalice of benediction” in which we have “communion with the Blood of Christ” (1 Cor 10:16). St. John XXIII knew this well.