Communion in the Catholic Church

Communion in the Catholic Church

By Fr. Damian Richards To help describe the Catholic Church’s understanding of Communion, I am cribbing this article from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. (If you want to look this up yourself, it is paragraphs 1328-1332 of the Catechism.) We have many different names for Communion. Each one of the names describes one aspect of Communion. We call it the Eucharist, because it is an act of Thanksgiving we give to God. The Greek words euchari…