take into you so that it becomes a piece of your inmost self. Surrency’s poem creates a question from the challenge St. Augustine gave his people when he preached on the sacrament of the Eucharist in ...

The Latin Mass, girl acolytes, women preaching, which politicians should be barred from receiving the Eucharist? What's the matter here? How has our central act of worship become the center of such ...

For many Christians, communion is one of the most sacred aspects of their religion and an important religious tradition. You may be familiar with some communion scripture, or perhaps you've shopped ...

This Sunday’s readings call the faithful to reconsider the most holy body and blood of Christ in light of extreme divisions facing our country and world. This Sunday, the readings draw out three ...

Sunday, June 7, is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Mass readings: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58. On this ...

Christian tradition diverges on the nature and meaning of the Lord’s Supper. Lent is a season of preparation in which Christians get ready to celebrate the momentous events of Christ’s death, ...

I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...

Scripture’s description of the church is more than a comparison to human anatomy. I have preached 1 Corinthians 12 more times than I can count. I have preached it at staff retreats with lukewarm ...

I did not go to Mass this weekend. I am grateful that my parish and diocese have suspended the public celebration of the Eucharist for the foreseeable future in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

François Turretin (1623-1687) was a Reformed Protestant theologian and was generally considered to be the best Calvinist apologist besides John Calvin himself. In his primary work, Institutes of ...