VATICAN CITY — As more Catholics around the world find themselves unable to receive the Eucharist due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis provided an example of a spiritual communion prayer that ...

In the Orthodox tradition, Communion is considered the main sacrament in which a person unites with Christ, accepting His Body and Blood under the guise of bread and wine. This moment is the peak of ...

Paula Magliocco of Pewaukee, Wis., is a busy mother of three and a Catholic elementary-school teacher. Yet, in spite of her hectic life, she finds time to make a spiritual communion, not just once, ...

Luca Pace, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi at the Pantheon, looks at artwork in the private gallery of the academy on an upper floor of the historic site ...

Celebrating his first Mass in Rome's diocesan cathedral, Pope Leo XIV said communion is built primarily "on our knees," through prayer and a constant commitment to conversion. He reaffirmed Pope ...

Prayer before Communion plays several interrelated roles in the spiritual life of a believer. Firstly, it performs the function of repentance and inner purification: the believer realizes his ...

Prayer is""an inner communion with the divine"" and should be""as natural as breathing,"" writes spirituality diva Vanzant, author of the bestselling In the Meantime, in this collection drawn from her ...

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican April 7, 2021. The pope said Christians are never alone in prayer but instead are ...