Question Corner: Why can’t the church offer a completely gluten-free host? February 19, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner It is true that actual wheat must be used in a valid celebration of the Eucharist, but there are still ways to receive holy Communion even as a Catholic with a severe gluten intolerance.
10-state National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to go right through Iowa’s ‘Field of Dreams’ February 18, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News The 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will begin in Indianapolis May 18 and travel through 10 states before reaching Los Angeles June 22.
Regional events will help set the stage for 2029 National Eucharistic Congress February 11, 2025By Tom Tracy OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, News, World News A large urban setting with ample family-friendly attractions will likely host the next National Eucharistic Congress in 2029, following a series of regional events beginning next year.
Next National Eucharistic Congress to be held in 2029, will ‘build on grace’ of Indianapolis February 10, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News The 11th National Eucharistic Congress will be held in 2029, building “on the grace” received in Indianapolis at the 10th congress, said Jason Shanks, CEO of the National Eucharistic Congress Inc.
Question Corner: Can you receive Communion twice in one day? February 5, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Question Corner A faithful Catholic may indeed receive holy Communion twice in one day — but the second reception must be within the context of a Mass.
Eucharistic revival event shares ways to ‘walk with’ persons hurt by the church January 31, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Eucharist, News, World News Walk With One embraces the idea that everyone can — indeed, must — evangelize, and aims to equip them for sharing the Good News of Jesus’ love and compassion.
A Eucharistic Word: Holiness January 18, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist, Saints Truly in the Eucharist, as the saints came to know, we find the answer to our searching, the satisfaction to our yearning, the meaning of it all.
National pilgrimage, congress stand out as 2024 highlights for U.S. church December 31, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News The U.S. gathering — and related events preceding it — was a major undertaking in 2024. As the pinnacle of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ three-year National Eucharistic Revival, it is already proving to be a milestone in the life of the U.S. church, and in the lives of the Catholics who participated.
Cupich: Standing, not kneeling, for Communion a ‘powerful symbolic expression’ December 18, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago is advocating for Catholic faithful to receive holy Communion standing — the normative posture established by the U.S. Catholic bishops — as part of a renewed awareness of the theology of the Communion procession.
A Eucharistic Word: Waiting November 21, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist The Eucharist, as the source and summit of Christian life, has much to teach us about waiting.
A pilgrim reflects upon traveling hundreds of miles with the Eucharist November 20, 2024By Kai Weiss OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist As one of the perpetual pilgrims who traveled with him for the entire two months, I got to experience the adventure of a lifetime.
A Eucharistic Word: Fruitfulness October 20, 2024By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist The Eucharist truly is the gift that shapes our character into his. We pray, as St. Augustine preached, that we will ever more fully become who we receive.
