National Catholic Reporter

Letters to the editor about the real meaning of the Eucharist

In a series about the Eucharist, Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese says the Eucharist is not to make Jesus present so we can worship him. Reese also writes about the Jewish roots of the Eucharist, a combination ...
National Catholic Reporter

To see God's real presence in the Eucharist, we must see God everywhere

The small marble table from a Roman-era home was adorned with carved acanthus leaves and the body of Dionysus. When I saw it in the archaeological museum of Thessaloniki, Greece, I broke down crying, ...
National Catholic Register

‘The Fruit of Carlo’s Faith’: How the Eucharist Can Change Souls and the World

From Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 of this year, Antonia Acutis came to the United States as a producer and collaborator for the movie The New Manna, a film about Eucharistic miracles and the Real Presence of ...
America Magazine

Language matters. The Eucharist is more than ‘the body of Jesus.’

Auxiliary Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of St. Paul and Minneapolis carries the Eucharist in a monstrance during a procession June 19, 2021. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit) ...
America Magazine

Bishop Flores: The Eucharist is the final word and action of Jesus

We tend to think that Jesus’ words transmitted to us in the New Testament convey to us his Gospel. They do, of course, but not exhaustively. For no multiplicity of particular words can say all that is ...