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The “Sacrament of Unity,” the Eucharist, demonstrates great diversity. In its celebration, ritual families from Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, Armenia, and Rome make their own unique cultural ...

To John Chrysostom). These texts have become publicly available and are printed in modern prayer books and sequences for Holy Communion. The meaning and spiritual significance of prayer before ...

(RNS) The idea of online Communion raises fundamental questions about the definition of community, individual participation, the role of tradition and basic theological understandings of the meaning ...

In the Orthodox tradition, Communion is considered the main sacrament in which a person unites with Christ, accepting His Body and Blood under the guise of bread and wine. This moment is the peak of ...

There is no doubt in Scripture or Church teaching that Jesus Christ is truly present in the Holy Eucharist. — “And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ...

The biannual U.S. Catholic bishops’ meeting received more than its usual attention this June due to one particular item on its agenda: a proposed document on the Sacrament of the Eucharist, a ritual ...

If synodality is to have any real meaning in the Catholic Church, it must be rooted in the local parish. An area that would benefit from a parish synodal process is the manner in which First Communion ...

ROME – Formally speaking, Vatican documents are categorized according to their ecclesiastical genre. An “encyclical”, for instance, is a developed form of papal teaching, an “instruction” generally ...

As online worship becomes more common in some churches, leaders within the United Methodist Church are debating whether the denomination should condone online communion. About 30 denominational ...