What if we brought together two currents: attachment to the Eucharist as liturgical action and devotion with attachment to the Blessed Virgin Mary? The conjunction of these currents can enable them to reinforce each other and can make a significant impact on our spiritual journeys.
Eucharist
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Why are people so angry about a Eucharistic procession through New York City?
I love Eucharistic processions—not because they trigger some kind of fond nostalgia for the good old days (how old do you think I am?), but because it is literally Jesus and people following him. What’s not to love?
Posted inFaith, Your Take
Should the church expect donations with Mass requests?
In an essay published on America’s website in September, John F. Baldovin, S.J., examined the theological soundness of making a monetary offering for the sake of “having a Mass said” for an individual.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Do most Catholics think the Eucharist is ‘just a symbol’? It’s complicated.
Maybe the crisis of disbelief in the Eucharist is not as dire as previously thought.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Pay to pray: Catholics should stop offering money for Mass intentions
It’s time to rethink “having a Mass said” for someone.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The Eucharistic Revival is missing something: the Blood of Christ
There is much to hope for in the U.S. bishops’ project of local and national revitalization. But there cannot be a full-fledged eucharistic revival without a precious blood revival.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Language matters. The Eucharist is more than ‘the body of Jesus.’
Taking liberties with the wording of magisterial teachings or the wording of the liturgy is an extremely dangerous and self-serving exercise in terms of the church’s belief.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theological vision of the Eucharist, heaven and a Christ-centered anthropology
Jonathan Ciraulo claims that “Balthasar’s theology as a whole is concerned, one could say consumed, with making the Eucharist the linchpin for all speculative dogmatics.” It is worth considering the ramifications of this view in four crucial areas of theology: Christology, theological anthropology, Trinitarian theology and eschatology.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Corpus Christi reminds us: a different kind of politics won’t heal our divisions. Only the Eucharist can.
The Eucharist as the sacrament of unity constitutes the church not as just another social body, but as mystical and universal in its orientation toward the kingdom of God.
Posted inFaith, News
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage connects Catholics across U.S. to 2024 Congress
The 2024 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage goes across the country to converge in Indianapolis before the Eucharistic Congress opens in July 2024.