Let it be enough for you to understand that it is by the Holy Spirit, just as it was of the Holy Virgin and by the Holy Spirit that the Lord, through and in himself, took flesh. [St. John ...

The Holy Spirit, third, helps to bring about in us through worthy reception of the Holy Eucharist the spiritual communion — “one Body, one Spirit, in Christ,” as we pray in Eucharistic ...

Eucharistic Prayer IV prays, “Grant in your loving kindness to all who partake of this one Bread and one chalice that, gathered into one body by the Holy Spirit, they may truly become a living ...

The Eucharist’s finality, in terms of communion and the Holy Spirit, emerges also in Bonaventure. His use of the traditional threefold sacramental structure in his theology of this sacrament ...

For Catholics: As Catholics, we fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when we receive Holy Communion. In order to be properly disposed to receive communion, participants should not ...

“The Holy Eucharist is the body, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ,” he explained. In the Catholic Church, there are mortal and venial sins. Mortal sins force the Holy Spirit to depart from ...

A key to Cardinal Francis Leo’s second pastoral letter for the Archdiocese of Toronto comes, fittingly, in the fifth paragraph of the introduction to the document’s nine segments.