Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

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The Church of England has ruled that non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread cannot be used in Holy Communion services after priests demanded an end to the 'injustice'. Church laws state that ...

most especially of the Eucharist: You ask how the bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the wine . . . the Blood of Christ I shall tell you: the Holy Spirit comes upon them and accomplishes what ...

Non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread cannot be used during holy communion, the governing body of the Church of England has ruled. Church guidance says the bread must be made using wheat flour ...

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 be conscious of grave sin ...

Non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread cannot be used during holy communion, the governing body of the Church of England has ruled. The general synod had been asked to consider using alternatives to ...

Non-alcoholic wine and gluten-free bread cannot be used during holy communion, the governing body of the Church of England has ruled. Church guidance says the bread must be made using wheat flour and ...

Founded by Mother Angelica in 1998, the Knights of the Holy Eucharist is an active-contemplative Franciscan community dedicated to adoring Jesus our Eucharistic King, while striving to observe the ...

To receive Holy Communion, they knelt at the Communion rail to be fed by the priest with the host placed on the tongue. The rail fenced off the sanctuary, the “holy place” that laypeople ...