Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about the critical need for Mass, and for Mass to be celebrated with faithful attention by the priest. Lopez says, “We must pray for priests. We must support and encourage them. ...
Church services and Mass online cannot compare to or replace the in-person participation of the faithful, the head of the Vatican's office for divine worship told the world's bishops. "As soon as circumstances permit, however, it ...
A reader recently heard that when we receive communion, we are consuming the glorified body, blood, soul and divinity of Our Lord. Monsignor Charles Pope, in his latest Pastoral Answers column, comments on this phrasing. ...
The month of July is devoted to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. How appropriate that this follows the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in June: “Because once Jesus gave his heart ...
The Eucharist heals people of their wounds, emptiness and sadness, and gives them the strength to share Christ's loving mercy with others, Pope Francis said.The joy of the Lord can change lives, the pope said ...
D.D. Emmons explores the practice of offering Communion under both species. The distribution of Communion must be carefully discerned, reverently conducted, and even the potential for abuse, especially mishandling the Precious Blood, avoided. Further, the ...
A parish priest in Bangor, Maine, said he saw many Mass-goers "in tears" as they took holy Communion for the first time in close to three months at a publicly celebrated Mass June 7, Trinity ...
Be ready for Mass by reading Opening the Word for the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Tim O’Malley says “we have forgotten Eucharistic reverence in our churches, making the Eucharist something easy, ...
Regulations for the reopening of religious institutions developed by a Maryland county that seemed to disallow the distribution of holy Communion were withdrawn after church leaders voiced opposition. Public officials in Howard County in the ...
In this issue of Taking Note, Kathryn Jean Lopez asks, “What’s essential?” That is the essential question of these coronavirus times. And how have we been answering it? She notes, “We are being called to ...
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