1106. "Together with the anamnesis, the epiclesis is at the heart of each sacramental celebration, most especially of the Eucharist: You ask how the bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the wine ...
St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle to the Romans," c. 105 A.D. "Heretics abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the Flesh of our Savior Jesus ...
The Catholic Church teaches in its catechism that the Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life”; through the reception of the Eucharist at holy Communion, Catholics unite themselves ...
Pope Francis returned to his residence in the Vatican March 23 after spending 38 days in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for treatment of double pneumonia.