The luminous mysteries are: the Baptism of the Lord, the Wedding at Cana, the Proclamation of the Kingdom, the Transfiguration and the Institution of the Eucharist. They were added to the original ...

When our Lord instituted the Eucharist during the Last Supper, night had already fallen. The world had fallen into darkness, for the old rites, the old signs of God's infinite mercy to mankind ...

Twenty years ago, St. John Paul II published the apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, adding five Luminous Mysteries ... and his institution of the Eucharist, “as the sacramental ...

Sadly, one of the things Catholics fight over is the Eucharist. In his June 29 apostolic ... continues to reach us in the celebration of the ‘mysteries,’ of the sacraments,” the pope wrote ...

To understand the Eucharist, we must remember that Jesus and his first disciples were all Jews. We might even say the first Christians were Jewish heretics because, unlike their fellow Jews ...

"Perhaps because his gospel was the last gospel to be written and deemed the Institution of the Eucharist already sufficiently covered, John focuses instead on Christ’s action of washing the ...

On Holy Thursday, the Easter Triduum begins. The Catholic Church commemorates the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. As if that weren't enough, with the washing of the feet ...