In fact, the church had to wait until the Second Vatican Council, some 400 years later, before laypersons could regain their rightful place in the eucharistic liturgy. Today, the liturgy has come full ...

The eucharistic prayer is the most important and least understood prayer in the Catholic Mass. Most Catholics see it as the priest's prayer that is centered on the consecration of the bread and wine ...

The liturgy, most especially the Mass, is the central act of the Church. Vatican II reminds us that “the liturgy, ‘through which the work of our redemption is accomplished, most of all in the divine ...

Over the past four summers I have gotten a break from doctoral studies in sacramental theology at the Atheneum of Sant’Anselmo in Rome by ministering at St. Isaac Jogues Parish in Rapid City, S.D. A ...

We need to be very familiar with the world of liturgy, because for us to be truly human and Christian we need to have our life to be liturgical. We have to enter into this world presented to us by our ...

When I first became a believer, it was in the context of a small non-denominational group of Evangelical charismatics who lived on my dorm floor. I knew from nothing about Christianity when I became a ...

(RNS) — The Eucharistic prayer is the most important and least understood prayer in the Catholic Mass. Most Catholics see it as the priest’s prayer that is centered on the consecration of the bread ...

This illustration shows an altar with many of the objects used for the celebration of Mass. (Credit: CNS illustration/Zoey Maraist and Pia Hovenga, Arlington Catholic Herald) Listen ARLINGTON, ...

To understand the Eucharist, we must remember that Jesus and his first disciples were all Jews. We might even say the first Christians were Jewish heretics because, unlike their fellow Jews, they ...