In 1997, John Cardinal O’Connor of New York canonically established the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist as a community of religious women. A young woman interested in becoming a ...

In her school of “woman of the Eucharist,” we recover that “astonishment” when we encounter the Mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ, and the whole Church lives it with ever more fervor.

What does this mean for our understanding of the Eucharist? This presentation shows how tradition from the beginning (1st–3rd centuries) to the recent past (John Paul II) has couched its belief in ...

“Father Rodriguez gave the woman a blessing and advised her to receive the Sacrament of Penance (Confession) before coming back to receive Holy Communion (Eucharist).” The same woman is said ...