Eucharist (Gr. eucharistia, thanksgiving), the name given to the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar under its twofold aspect of sacrament and Sacrifice of the Mass, and in which, whether as sacrament or sacrifice, Jesus Christ is truly present under the appearances of bread and wine. Other title...
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Myths and misconceptions about Catholics abound. Examples of these include how we worship Statues and Mary, how we mistakenly think of the Eucharist as actually being Jesus (think of that! Yet what about John Ch. 6?), and how our doctrine of purgatory is just some unbiblical, money-making...
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Catholic Answers began in 1979 after a Fundamentalist church in San Diego, California, decided to leaflet the cars at a local parish during Mass. The fliers attacked the Eucharist and were riddled with misinformation. Upon coming out of Mass and finding one on his car, attorney Karl Keating wa...
But what you see in the gospels is that Jesus is always drawing people into the company of his friends, disreputable friends sometimes, and that if you want to belong to him, you have to enter that broad, welcoming friendship, which is what we celebrate in the Eucharist.What do you ...
. The Eucharist; the TRUE Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! It was not just ‘communion’, it was not just bread, or a cracker, or a wafer and wine, it was the TRUE BODY of Jesus and it was and IS the TRUE BLOOD of Jesus! This knowledge ...
In 1956, Pope Pius XII limited the period of time for the observance of the Eucharistic fast before the celebration of Mass or the reception of Holy Communion, which some traditional Catholics follow, to three hours from solid food and alcoholic beverages, and to one hour from non-alcoholic ...
Of particular note, O’Connor’s Catholicism is on full display, and is portrayed as an asset to her creative genius and a bulwark through her personal storm. Her famous line about the Eucharist: “If it’s just a symbol, to hell with it,” makes a particularly poignant appearance at a...