The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...
45 The Latin Church, which reserves admission to Holy Communion to those who have attained the age of reason, expresses the orientation of Baptism to the Eucharist by having the newly baptized ...
Reception of holy Communion on the tongue has been a tradition of the Church for more than 15 centuries. It began, largely, as an effort to affirm that the Eucharist was not a symbol or a ritual ...
At the Baptism of Christ, The Holy Spirit descended like a dove ... Words floating ephemerally in our minds or out of our mouths. Signs and symbols more or less anchored to solid, dependable physical ...
The Vatican has sought to engage young people in the 2025 Jubilee pilgrimage with the introduction of Luce, an anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee.
At U.S. presidential inaugurations, prayers often reflect national identity as much as faith. From New York Cardinal Timothy ...
February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...
Orthodox Christian commemoration of St. Basil the Great, who wrote a Eucharist Liturgy ... September 14 Holy Cross Day – Christian A Christian day of recognition for the cross on which Jesus was ...
Pope Francis during the opening of the Holy Door in Saint Peter Basilica on the 24th of December ... Popes like Sixtus IV and Julius II transformed Rome into a symbol of Christian grandeur, ...