The liturgy, most especially the Mass, is the central act of the Church. Vatican II reminds us that “the liturgy, ‘through which the work of our redemption is accomplished, most of all in the divine ...

The Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in some respects looks like a traditional Mass with a rite (the veneration of the cross) added. It is not. First of all, it is not a Mass because no consecration of ...

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” In the Seminary that I attended, the Latins said that it was useless to ...

The very title of Pope Saint John Paul II’s 2003 encyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” (“The Church of the Eucharist”) tells us clearly that the Eucharist is at the heart of who we are as Catholics and ...

(RNS) — Liturgy is one of the topics to be discussed in Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory, or meeting of cardinals called to advise the pope on particular topics, on Jan. 7-8. I hope the ...

The eucharistic prayer is the most important and least understood prayer in the Catholic Mass. Most Catholics see it as the priest's prayer that is centered on the consecration of the bread and wine ...

Before the Reformation, even the Catholic Church did not have a uniformly celebrated liturgy. Here, for example, is a fascinating variant in the medieval rite of marriage. It is the exchange of rings, ...

An explanation of the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist, also called Holy Communion or Mass: a re-enactment of Jesus's Last Supper of bread and wine. The Eucharist, which is also called the Holy ...

We know that your patience is running thin, but we encourage you to hold on as we all continue to fight this awful coronavirus disease. Let the vaccine work, and put your trust in Almighty God. He ...