Eucharist

Father Hardon’s writings on the Eucharist explore the central mystery of the Catholic faith and the Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. These articles examine Holy Communion, the Mass, Eucharistic devotion, adoration, sacrifice, and the spiritual power of the Eucharist in Christian life.

Christmas and the Eucharist

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Of the many subjects that we could talk about on Christmas day, I thought the most appropriate would be to speak on Christmas and the Eucharist. There are many aspects to their relationship, but I believe that there are mainly three: (1) both Christmas and the Eucharist are facts; […]

The Conversion of America Through the Eucharist

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Does anyone doubt that America needs to be converted? When the Holy Father spoke to the youth in Denver in 1993, his urgent theme was to pray that America might not lose its soul. The soul of America is Christianity. Christianity is the principle of our national life. As […]

Faith in the Holy Eucharist

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Our present conference continuing the series on Father Gerald’s Priestly Spirituality, the present conference is on Faith in the Holy Eucharist. As we have seen, Father Gerald’s preoccupation was the sanctification of priests. Concretely, this meant that priests are to be holy. In the words of the Bishop when […]

Eucharistic Devotion and the Real Presence

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The present issue of The Catholic Faith is devoted to the Holy Eucharist. The immediate reason is a request by the Holy See that we devote one issue of the magazine in preparation for the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Poland during May 1997. If there is […]

The Eucharist as the Living Christ

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The real crisis of faith in Catholic ranks today is the crisis of disbelief in the Eucharist. The most dramatic reason for this is the same as what happened when Christ first announced that He would give us His Body and Blood to eat and drink as described by […]

The Eucharist, Source and Summit of the Christian Life

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The moment we say that the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life, we are faced with an avalanche of ideas that contradict this statement. It was this concern about the Eucharistic errors in our day that occasioned Pope Paul VI to issue his historic encyclical […]

Eucharist, Worship and Custody

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. The worship and custody of the Holy Eucharist, independently of Mass and Holy Communion, can be traced to post-apostolic times. St. Justin, writing in his Apology around the year 150, says that deacons were appointed to carry the Blessed Sacrament to those who were absent from the liturgy. The […]

The Eucharistic Crusade in the United States

by Father John A. Hardon, S.J.(transcription) Introduction: The Eucharistic Crusade in the United States. When one makes the Spiritual Exercises in a meditation on the Incarnation, starting the second week they’re asked to see and discover how the three Divine Persons looked down on the whole surface of the earth and behold all the nations […]

The Holy Eucharist as Communion and Sacrament

by Father John A. Hardon, S.J.(transcription) Our secularized, paganized, former Christian America is beyond salvation naturally speaking. The believing and true Catholic must wake up to the fact that God became man and remains with us in the Holy Eucharist to help us to make the impossible possible. Father Hardon shows clearly that much power […]

The Most Blessed Sacrament and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. My subject is, “The Most Blessed Sacrament and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” Before I begin to explain how the Holy Eucharist and Our Lady are related I would like to give you a brief resume of this immense subject. My plan is to cover three areas of the […]

Doctrine of the Real Presence in the Encyclical “Mediator Dei”

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Shortly before his elevation to the Pontificate, Cardinal Pacelli was commissioned by Pius XI to preside at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest in 1938. In the opening address on May 25, he exhorted the assembled multitude to cultivate their faith in the Blessed Sacrament with as much devotion […]

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of “Mysterium Fidei”

By Father John A. Hardon, S.J. On September 3, 1965, Pope Paul VI published the encyclical Mysterium Fidei on the doctrine and worship of the Holy Eucharist. It was an unprecedented document, issued during the Second Vatican Council. It was also an urgent document because it provided the necessary doctrinal foundation for the Council’s historic […]

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