When we receive our Lord in holy Communion, we should receive him in the way we encounter a loved one: with reverence, care, gentleness and humility. For in the holy Eucharist, the Catechism of ...

Holy Communion is a bond to the community, as it is a union with Christ. When the Eucharist is brought to the home, the family should prepare a table with a cloth and a lighted candle.

The Jubilee Vatican decree lists the corporal and spiritual works and presents many ways to put them into practice.

Transubstantiation close transubstantiationCatholic belief that the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ at Holy Communion. is a Catholic belief that the bread and the wine ...