COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

proclamation of the Word, acceptance of the Gospel entailing conversion, profession of faith, Baptism itself, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and admission to Eucharistic communion. 1230 This ...

In other words, he was celebrating the Eucharist on a Sunday when he was ... but the sacrifice of our hearts, the symbol of our lives, in imitation of Jesus Christ. We make our sacrifice of ...

In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the death of Sister Stang, who is considered by many as a "Martyr of the Amazon," a ...

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.

He takes the speechless Word in his arms, as Mary took the Word into her body ... But he burst forth in gratitude — literally in a eucharist, or thanksgiving. For him, his cup indeed runneth over; his ...

Religion really is the word of God. It brings cohesiveness and ... but it does contain the building blocks for new rituals like Holy Communion and baptism, and the story of God’s self-sacrifice ...

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 ...

Other myths accused them of poisoning wells or desecrating the consecrated host of the Eucharist to reenact the ... about the modernizing world. In other words, it was not merely prejudice ...

One representation of American Christianity began speaking to another, and the most powerful man in the world was arrested by the words of a silver-haired female bishop in the pulpit. Until he ...