Most people know the snippet of Flannery O’Connor’s defense of the Holy Eucharist, wherein she sat at a dinner party and said, “Well, if it’s a symbol, to hell with it.” The quote goes ...

From St. Paul to St. Augustine, the language of ‘bread’ doesn’t deny the Real Presence — it points to the deeper reality of ...

Mrs. Broadwater said when she was a child and received the Host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost ... Flannery O'Connor on the Eucharist: "Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it." ...

The Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is one of the most important celebrations ...

The two spar a bit over the Eucharist ... she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, He being the 'most portable' person of the Trinity; now she thought of it as a symbol and implied that it was ...

For the early Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus were experienced and explained through the symbols ... As we celebrate the Eucharist on Holy Thursday, we will give thanks and ...

But for many Catholics across the United States, the eucharist, also called holy communion ... about 70 percent believe they are mere symbols, according to a Pew poll from 2019.

Holy Thursday celebrates the institution of the Eucharist as the true body and ... and the need for cleansing with water, a symbol of baptism. Also emphasized are the critical importance of ...

aiming to “reinforce the importance of the Real Presence of the Lord in the Holy Eucharist.” The events in Memphis come after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in June called for a ...