(RNS) — 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 ...

A careful reading of the Eucharistic prayers (12 have been approved for use by the church) shows that the purpose of the ...

COMMENTARY: As the Second Vatican Council famously described, the celebration of the Eucharist is the source, summit, root and center of Catholic faith and life. Pope Francis elevates the Host during ...

The U.S. bishops are working on a document on the Eucharist, which could be very helpful if they do it right. The chances are slim. The origins of the document go back to the bishops' fight with ...

Maybe the crisis of disbelief in the Eucharist is not as dire as previously thought? A new report from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University aims to dive deeper ...

The Archdiocese of Quito and the communications office of the 53rd International Eucharistic Congress Quito 2024 reported that on March 25, Monday of Holy Week, Ecuador renewed its historic ...

Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, recently urged Catholics at Philadelphia’s Eucharistic Congress to “open ourselves to wonder” before the Eucharist and to seek the ...

For the third year, Father Joseph Kelly had a Eucharistic Procession into the Guardian Angel School from Guardian Angel Church, following the first school Mass. This Mass occurred on Thursday, August ...

“What a strange feeling it is to be looking at what by all appearances is a piece of bread in a little glass compartment in the center of a very simple gold monstrance and feel like you are the one ...

In this 2014 file photo, Pope Francis elevates the Eucharist as he celebrates Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi outside the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. (Credit: CNS photo/Paul Haring.) ...

Ever since the Last Supper, Catholics have pondered what happens during the Mass when they believe the bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus. "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was ...