The source and summit of the Christian life
- Course
- The sacraments
- sections
- 7 sections
- lessons
- 42 lessons
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Not a walk through the Mass — a course on what is on the altar.
Seven sections take up the Real Presence, the one sacrifice made present, the crisis that gave us the word transubstantiation, what Trent answered and what it did not, how to receive worthily, and why Catholics kneel before bread.
What's inside
- Bread, Wine, and a Priest Older Than Israel
- The Bread That Ran Out
- A Hard Saying
- Reading John 6 Honestly
- On the Night He Was Betrayed
- A Passover That Changed
- Truly, Really, Substantially
- What the Senses Cannot Reach
- Substance and Accidents
- When It Happens, and How Long It Lasts
- Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity
- The Sacrament of Unity
- Once for All, Made Present
- The Pure Offering Among the Nations
- Priest and Victim
- The Sacrifice of Christians
- For the Living and the Dead
- Bringing Something to the Altar
- The Flesh of Our Saviour
- The Word That Changes Things
- The Crisis That Named It
- Sign and Reality
- Trent Answers the Reformers
- What the Council Did Not Say
- Examine Yourself
- Lord, I Am Not Worthy
- Fasting, Frequency, and the Precept
- Children at the Table
- What Communion Does
- What to Do in the Ten Minutes After
- Symbol or Substance?
- Where the Divisions Actually Run
- Are You Sacrificing Christ Again?
- The Lamb Standing as Though Slain
- Objections Old and New
- But It Is Still Bread
- Adoration and the Tabernacle
- An Hour, and What to Do With It
- Miracles and the Saints
- What the Saints Actually Report
- Sent from the Table
- Sunday, and Why It Holds