The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage was a moment of grace for thousands across northern Colorado as Jesus, fully present in the...

It’s not every day that you get to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and the saints – and saints-to-be (God willing)! As the National...

“Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive...

In honor of Corpus Christi Sunday, many parishes around the Archdiocese of Denver took to the streets to honor Our Lord in the Eucharist....

Today, most strive to base their lives around concrete evidence. If they cannot see it, they cannot believe it. In that very world, Jesus...

By Father Leo Almazán/National Eucharistic Revival Female voice: “No, thank you.” Male voice: [Muffled words I could not understand]…...

Photo by Lia Mendoza via Cathopic Catechetical School Instructor for the SJV Lay Division St. Thomas Aquinas is probably best known for his impressive theological works, but during his life he also composed beautiful prayers and hymns that we still sing in the Church today. Among these is his Adoro te devote , often known under the English title “Godhead Here in Hiding,” a translation into English by the 19th-century English poet and Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins. This

When talking about a work of art, historical context deepens our appreciation. So, let’s start there. We all know the names Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo, but their significance as artists who influenced western civilization dims as time passes between us and them. In their day, these four men were key players in the revitalization of Rome. The man in charge was Pope Julius II, who recognized that the Church needed a new face for a new generation. His plan was

Photo by Grant Whitty via Unsplash In the 1930s, during Stalin’s rage against all things religious, St. Louis Catholic Church in Moscow was the only Catholic Church still open in all the USSR. As detailed in the marvelous book, In Lubianka’s Shadow, Catholics from all over the USSR would travel hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles, to receive the sacraments. St. Louis Church was located on a side street, just across from the infamous Lubianka KGB Prison. The KGB kept carefu

Allegory of the Eucharist, Alexander Coosemans, ca. 1641. The Eucharist is a great work of cooperation. We supply the matter — the bread and wine, which is not simply natural material, but the produce of human work and culture — that God then transforms into the Body and Blood of Christ. Bread and wine are so central to the history of human culture that they could even be more simply expressed as “food” and “drink.” Although we see wine as an extraneous pleasure or something

The words and actions of a man in the last conscious moments of his life in this world are always charged with deep meaning. The last days of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God made man for us and for our salvation, also possess that special density. At the Last Supper with his disciples, Christ left us the Holy Mass. From that moment on, it can be said that the Church lives by the Eucharist. In this mystery of love is fulfilled the promise of Christ: “the bread th