We must admit that this continuing voluntary element is of supreme importance in our understanding of the person of Christ. Without it Christ would become the helpless victim of the Incarnation ...
People do not profane the Body of Christ by eating ordinary bread or wine. The early Christians also had a Catholic understanding of the Eucharist. In The Didache - a 1st century catechism - the ...
1106. "Together with the anamnesis, the epiclesis is at the heart of each sacramental celebration, most especially of the Eucharist: You ask how the bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the wine ...
The Turin Shroud cannot be real because the “image of Christ” would be distorted if it had actually been wrapped around the three-dimensional body of Jesus, an expert has found. The shroud ...