We must also address how common members of the Church related to fasting and the Eucharist throughout history. Related to this issue is how requirements for fasting within the Church have changed liturgically. Finally, it is also important to address the attitudes that modern Catholics have ...
Art history The Eucharist and the Evangelists| An investigation of iconography and symbolism on a fifth-century ivory book cover NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Ann van Dijk HaasKathleen RThe focus of this project is a detailed study of the iconography and symbolism found on a fifth-century ivory ...
Eucharistic adoration has led to the composition of countless hymns, antiphons and motets in honour of the Blessed Sacrament. Texts and music have flourished throughout history, from the Church’s inception until today. One of the most renowned musical hymns is undoubtedly theAve verumwritten by ...
They are still close to us [through] prayer and the Eucharist. The link between [us and the Holy Souls} is this love of God, this Communion.” Famous statue of Our Lady of Montligeon inside the Shrine Basilica of the same name in La Chapelle-Montligeon, France. Our Lady of Mont...
Even our little country Church offers a fractal or portal for the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Orthodoxy, amid the world’s spiritual battles, as history flickers by in the shadow of the mystery of God’s plan. The royal doors open, the Eucharist comes out, and the gates of...
THE broadcasting of the services at the International Eucharistic Congress of World Catholicism at Buenos Aires in October 1934 to the largest and most widely diffused religious congregation in history was made possible by the radio telephone. On the closing day, October 14, the Pope, Pius XI, ...
Thus, it is abundantly clear that throughout the long history of the Catholic Church its official teaching regarding the Eucharist containing the real presence of the body and blood has never changed. The consecrated bread and water is indeed the body and blood of Jesus Christ!!
That same council prescribed transubstantiation as the authoritative understanding of the Eucharist. Transubstantiation is the belief that, when a priest says the words of institution, the bread and wine in Holy Communion changes in substance to become the body and blood of Christ. The elements are...
It is not the Eucharist that may pass away; it is freedom of conscience. It is not divine justice that may evaporate; it is the courts of human justice. It is not that God may be driven from His throne; it is that men may lose the meaning of home. ...
(Yes, I explained that Sorrowful is a set of mysteries, and Mary was assumed into heaven, before I left my boys to contemplate their mistakes further while I did my penance.) After getting my son to school, I decided to come to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist at ...