Penance and Reconciliation
A closer look at the sacrament of Reconciliation
Try It, You’ll Like It!
We can take a look into our spiritual mirror, and if we don’t like what we see, we have the chance to change it, all while accepting God’s gift of forgiveness.
The Saints and Eucharistic Devotion
Devotions to the Eucharist are invitations to prayer and contemplation.
Corpus Christi: The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
Jesus gives himself to us in the Eucharist as spiritual nourishment because he loves us. God’s whole plan for our salvation is directed to our participation in the life of the Trinity, the communion of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Marriage and the Eucharist
In the Eucharist, Catholic married couples meet the one who is the source of their marriage. “In this sacrifice of the new and eternal covenant, Christian spouses encounter the source from which their own marriage covenant flows, is interiorly structured and continuously renewed.”
THE MASS: Liturgy of the Eucharist
The Liturgy of the Eucharist begins with the preparation of the gifts and the altar. As the ministers prepare the altar, representatives of the people bring forward the bread and wine that will become the Body and Blood of Christ.
The Last Supper
The account of the institution of the Eucharist may be found in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke as well as in Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians.
The Real Presence of Christ
By the power of the Holy Spirit, Christ is present in the proclamation of God’s Word, in the Eucharistic assembly, in the person of the priest, but above all and in a wholly unique manner in the Eucharist.
Priestly Ordination
Ordination to the priesthood is always a call and a gift from God. Christ reminded his Apostles that they needed to ask the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into the harvest. Those who seek priesthood respond generously to God’s call using the words of the prophet, “Here I am, send me” (Is 6:8).
Who Me, Pray? …With Her?
Down to Earth Questions and Answers about Praying as a Couple