At Communion time, eucharistic ministers took up their stations on each of the four sides of the altar. This arrangement allowed us to have the experience of truly being an assembly gathered ...

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 ...

Next, realize that Eucharistic life cannot be lived without adoration. The Mass is not enough. If we can’t go to daily Mass, we should at least have a weekly Holy Hour.

When a minister of the Church brings Communion, the sick or elderly person shares in the eucharistic meal of the community. This holy Communion manifests the support and concern of the community ...

Spiritual care for hospital patients In fact, lay Eucharistic ministers give out Communion much more frequently than priests do. According to the Georgetown University-based research institute ...

Holy Communion Under Both Kinds. ... bows his or her head before the Sacrament as a gesture of reverence and receives the Body of the Lord from the minister. ... [the Holy Eucharist], nothing ...

c. 2007 Religion News Service (UNDATED) A hardline U.S. Roman Catholic archbishop is urging ministers to deny Holy Communion to politicians who support ...

An Episcopal Church court has sided with a Virginia priest who was disciplined for engaging in a Eucharistic fast in protest ...

Ministers of Holy Communion may find themselves in the situation where they must refuse to distribute Holy Communion to someone in rare cases, such as in cases of a declared excommunication ...

But for many Catholics across the United States, the eucharist, also called holy communion, is something wholly apart from partisan skirmishes. It is quite literally about God. Image.

For the first time, two women with mental disabilities have been appointed as extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. The women have completed a course in liturgy ...