Crosby Harris and Constantin Marquez are seen with their first holy Communion art. (Credit: CNS composite; photo courtesy the Harris and Marquez families via The Catholic Spirit.) Listen METUCHEN ...

A Holy Thursday communion service will be offered at 7 p.m. "I will have readings surrounding the Last Supper, and we'll be singing songs intermittent through that," Bain said.

She suggested that some people may want to save some of the prepackaged communion supplies for Maundy Thursday, aka Holy Thursday, on April 9. The next Sunday communion after that is April 19.

"The message of Holy Week is "very, very sacred,'' said the Rev. Frank Santora of Faith Church in New Milford. "Jesus died for our sins and was resurrected to give us eternal life.

Msgr. Bux said Holy Communion in the hand was an “indult extracted from Paul VI which has become customary, and even the rule, justified also through the assumption that the Lord, at the Last ...

Divorced and civilly remarried Catholic couples cannot receive Holy Communion unless they abstain from sex, according to the leader of the Roman Catholic archdiocese in Philadelphia and a major fig… ...