After two years without it, I fear we are forgetting what is so precious about Christ’s blood and the reception of Communion in both forms.
Eucharist
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The eucharistic revival should remind Catholics: Communion means working for social justice.
It is my hope that the bishops’ campaign inspires not just an intellectual conversion but a religious conversion, propelling American Catholics to fight for a more just economy and a more Christian society.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis wants to end the liturgy wars. I fear his new letter on the Eucharist won’t help.
Pope Francis’s latest apostolic letter neglects to address the needs of the vast majority of Catholics, who accept the Novus Ordo but still do not fully understand the Eucharist.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Why we need a eucharistic revival
The danger we face as a church is not so much hostility toward the church and its sacraments, but apathy.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart reveals: The Eucharist is about friendship
The writings of St. Ignatius Loyola and the traditional Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart highlight a specific aspect of the Eucharist: friendship.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Interview: What is the bishops’ eucharistic revival, and why should Catholics care?
Pew reports that only 32 percent of U.S. Catholics believe in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The U.S. bishops are trying to make that number go up.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My parish’s tabernacle was stolen. I’ll never see the Eucharist the same way again.
It took the theft of our church’s tabernacle for me to comprehend the sanctity of its contents.