Due to the flu and cold season, Bishop Peter is directing all parishes to forego offering the precious Blood at masses from Advent through Holy Thursday: “It is my contention that our belief in the concomitant Presence of Body and Blood must be reiterated in these days. Our people need...

The Eucharist is the “heart and summit of the Church’s life,” since through it Christ “pours out” on his people the “graces of salvation” won by the sacrifice of his life “offered once for all on the cross” (Catechism, 1407). In every Eucharistic celebration, the very sacrifice of Christ on...