In the early church, the celebration of the Eucharist was an essential part of the Christian life. In continuation of last week's tremendously popular feature article, Divided by Communion, we are ...

Eucharist in early Christianity In the formative years of Christianity around 2,000 years ago, the practice of ritual meals was already common in both Jewish and Greco-Roman culture. Early Christian ...

The connection between the Eucharist and the paschal mystery -- God's plan for salvation fulfilled by Jesus' passion, death, resurrection and ascension -- was evident in the early church, but was ...

Modeled after the early church practice of sharing a meal together as Eucharist, dinner churches seek to address social isolation and loneliness through the very structure of their worship. Their ...

Today's Christian Eucharist is a combination of the Jewish synagogue service and Passover meal as adapted by the early Jewish Christians.

We call that meal the Eucharist. It is a meal where we remember, where we tell stories from the past, most especially we tell stories about the life of Jesus and about the impact of his death and ...

The Eucharist in the Church. The Passover meal was not a one-time event but something God’s people did regularly ... so the Sunday Eucharist became a regular feature of Christian life very early.

In the current practice of the Catholic Church in the United ... So a new reaction has been underway since at least the early 1990 ... more conscious participation in the eucharistic meal. ...