Feast of Faith CD and Workbook

Feast of Faith CD and Workbook

for the Year of the Eucharist

Everyone knows that being a good Catholic entails going to Mass each Sunday.  All serious Christians strive to obey the third of the Ten Commandments, which is keep holy the Lord’s Day.  But few Christian churches feel the need to celebrate the Lord’s Supper each Sunday.  Many have communion only four times a year.  And the understanding of what this “communion” really means varies enormously from one Christian faith tradition to another.

Recent studies have shown that, even among Catholics, there also exists a great degree of confusion over what the Eucharist is and to what degree it is important.

The Second Vatican Council—and indeed all of the popes of the 20^th century—have worked tirelessly to clear up the confusion by providing teachings to help Catholics and non-Catholic Christians to not only understand the Eucharist better, but to derive much greater benefit from it.

I thought it appropriate to create some tools that would make the life-changing teaching of Scripture and Tradition accessible to Catholics and non-Catholics, to adults and teens, to the theologically literate and beginners alike.  Hence the four-part faith formation series called the Feast of Faith.   This study guide is meant to accompany the four talks that make up the series, available as videos or audios, which seek to address four questions that have been put to me again and again over the years:

• What does the Catholic Church mean when it calls the Mass a “sacrifice”?
• What does the Catholic Church believe about the “real presence”?
• How can busy, active people get more out of their experience of Mass despite internal distractions, mediocre music, and deficient preaching?
• Does Eucharistic adoration have any place in the post-Vatican II church?

The Eucharist is truly a feast!  Yet many Catholics in the Western world look spiritually anemic.  My prayer is that this Study Guide will help, during this special year, move the weekly experience of the Eucharist more and more in the direction of becoming a life-changing encounter with the Risen Lord.  I am convinced that more effective assimilation of the rich nourishment provided in each and every Mass is the key to a more vital, energetic and effective Christianity.

Feast of Faith DVD and Workbook Set for the Year of the Eucharist

Feast of Faith CD and Workbook Set for the Year of the Eucharist

Feast of Faith Audio Tape and Workbook Set for the Year of the Eucharist