It has hardly been a year since the conclusion of the Year of the Rosary and we have yet again another initiative of the Holy Father: The Year of the Eucharist (October 2004 – October 2005).

We might ask: How does the Eucharist address his concerns? And how can we celebrate the Eucharist in a way that supports and feeds the faithful? The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy.

St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle to the Romans," c. 105 A.D. "Heretics abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the Flesh of our Savior Jesus ...