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Q: Many Christian readers, fresh off their Easter Communion services, wrote to me to ask me about the actual Christian belief about the bread and wine turning into the body and blood of Christ.
In 2005, after the death of Pope John Paul II, a group of cardinals reportedly gathered in Al Passetto di Borgo, a restaurant ...
A retail shop that sought to bring “underrepresented wines” to downtown Syracuse is closing this week after 2½ years in business. The Communion Wine & Spirits, located on the ground floor of ...
Priests and other celebrants distribute the Holy Communion – the bread and wine, representing the body and blood of Christ – ...
The Texan wine industry has grown dramatically over the past few decades, with one vineyard owner telling Newsweek the state ...
People, it’s all based on the moon: the paschal moon. Passover and Easter are the original moveable feasts, based on a series of mathematical approximations, an astronomical chart, the full moon ...
Photo-illustration by Newsweek/Getty Texan wine is nothing new, with Spanish missions being recorded as producing Communion wine in the state as early as the 1600s. Texas boasts one of the United ...
For the majority of churches, Communion is practiced once a month. However, some may do it weekly, bi-weekly or quarterly. The bread and wine served at Communion represent the body and blood of ...
Every spring, as Jewish families around the world gather for Pesach, a familiar rhythm takes hold: Matzah crunches, prayers and songs echo, maror makes a lot of nasal passages open — or as my father ...
The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place.