take into you so that it becomes a piece of your inmost self. Surrency’s poem creates a question from the challenge St. Augustine gave his people when he preached on the sacrament of the Eucharist in ...

Just imagine trying to get a group of U.S. citizens — or Catholics — to say that! It's not so much accepting God's law that would be the rub; the difficulty would be in getting all of them to agree to ...

Christian tradition diverges on the nature and meaning of the Lord’s Supper. Lent is a season of preparation in which Christians get ready to celebrate the momentous events of Christ’s death, ...

This Sunday’s readings call the faithful to reconsider the most holy body and blood of Christ in light of extreme divisions facing our country and world. This Sunday, the readings draw out three ...

On the surface of things, there’s no mystery how one ought to receive Communion: Stand up, file out of the pew, wait your turn in line, eat the Host, and head back to the pew. But beneath these ...

Louth concludes that the Fathers undermine “any tendency towards seeing mysticism as an elite, individualist quest for ‘peak’ experiences.” The spiritual (mystical) life is irreducibly embedded in the ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Epiphany of the Lord, Jan. 4, 2026.

Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! These are the words of great news for today. Out of the sacred word in scripture, today Christians recall that the tomb is empty, the burial clothes are ...

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 ...

An anti-Catholic Calvinist polemicist wrote: I openly challenge the Roman apologists to bring forth any example of a church father who says that after the consecration the bread is the blood of Christ ...

From Isaac Job, UyoFounder of Solid Rock Kingdom Church in Akwa Ibom state Apostle Dr John Okoriko has said that the body of Christ was enlarged to accommodate the world during his resurrection and ...