Bread That Is Broken
Bread That Is Broken The Holy Eucharist is the Church's most precious treasure, the source and summit of her worship and life. Any Christian who wonders how he should act, he writes, will find the…
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Bread That Is Broken
The Holy Eucharist is the Church's most precious treasure, the source and summit of her worship and life. Any Christian who wonders how he should act, he writes, will find the answer in the Eucharist. The Church is built upon and around the Eucharist.In this book, a renowned spiritual writer and Carmelite priest shows how receiving the Lord in the Eucharist has profound consequences, because the Eucharist is not only the great Sacrament that brings about oneness with Christ and with the faithful but also the foundational norm for Christian behavior.
The author explains that the Church must therefore guard this precious gift. He is called to become like Jesus--bread that is brokenfor the life of the world (Jn 6:51).According to Saint Thomas Aquinas, all the sacraments are directed toward the Eucharist as toward their final purpose. He correctly challenges the faithful to