The Bread of Life discourse — have you come to believe?

By Father Michael Comer. “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you will not have life within you.” Jesus spoke these words to […]

In the sacrament of the Eucharist, why bread and wine?

By Father Daniel Schomaker. The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life. The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound […]

Scratching the surface of ‘an inexhaustible mystery’

By David Cooley. Under the direction of Bishop Roger Foys, the Office of Catechesis and Evangelization has teamed up with the Messenger to produce catechetical articles on the Eucharist. Long-term […]