Product Description: Explore the deeper meaning of Eucharistic celebration with a highly regarded expert on liturgy. In Mystagogy of the Eucharist Gilbert Ostdiek, OFM, draws on ritual actions, liturgical symbols, prayer texts, and reflective commentary to help participants in the liturgy name and reflect on the meaning that Eucharist has for daily life...read more

1993 printing. Originally published in 1945.

Product Description: John of Dara was an important thinker, author, and leader in the West Syrian tradition in the ninth century. He left behind various works concerning theological and ecclesiastical matters. In the present volume, Baby Varghese presents an English translation of John s theological commentary on the Eucharist...read more

Product Description: A significant body of scholarship addresses pre-Norman Irish life and history, including the archaeology, art, and architecture from the time of St. Patrick (d. 493) to the arrival of the Normans in the twelfth century. While the place of the church and its organization in pre-Norman Ireland have been extensively studied, relatively little has been published on the eucharistic liturgy as celebrated in the pre-Norman church or on the attitudes of its worshippers to the Eucharist...read more

Product Description: Cardinal Arinze, the greatly esteemed African churchman and head of the Vatican congregation for worhsip and sacraments, elucidates the Church's faith in the Eucharist as the high point of her public worship and the source and summit of Christian life...read more

Product Description: A step-by-step excursion through the Mass. Fr. Stravinskas explains the parts of the Mass, giving scriptural references and explanations for the various actions and prayers. Each chapter ends with stud questions geared toward group discussion...read more

Product Description: The Just In Time! series offers brief, practical resources of immediate help for pastors at an affordable price.  This book introduces the practice of Communion and offers a collection of Communion prayers and ready-to-use resources for worship...read more

Product Description: A new edition of Gregory Dix's masterpiece, still essenytial reading for students and scholars and in print constantly for fifty years.Dom Gregory Dix's classic account of the development of the Eucharist rite continues to be the definitive and authoritative work on the subject...read more

Product Description: The conventional view of scholars has tended to be that the Last Supper, as recorded in the New Testament, was both the source and the pattern for the early Christian Eucharist. 'Eucharistic Origins' argues that, while the eucharistic sayings of Jesus did play an important part in shaping the beliefs of many early Christian communities: - the actual forms of their litugical celebrations were quite varied; - the association of the Eucharist with an evening meal continued, at least in some places, much longer than has usually been thought; and - the link between the eucharistic prayers found in later sources and the Jewish grace after meals is much more tenuous than previously imagined...read more

Product Description: In the not-too-distant past, visits to the Blessed Sacrament and participation in Forty Hours Devotion were almost extinct practices. Yet today devotion to the Eucharist has regained its popularity as a pathway to a deep and intimate union with the Lord...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents the full text of the Eucharistic service from the Book of Common Prayer, alongside commentary and cartoons that clarify the meaning of this service of the Episcopal Church.

Product Description: This booklet explores the deeper meaning of the Lord's table and provides many suggestions for effective celebration. Everyone with responsibilities in preparing and celebrating the eucharist will find a combination of theoretical and practical help.

Product Description: Speaks eloquently to about the role of the Divine Liturgy in Eastern Christian life.

Product Description: Observers from Western churches never fail to be awestruck at a celebration of the liturgy in an Orthodox church. Naturally, many questions follow: How has the Orthodox liturgy been shaped? How different is it from the Eucharistic rites of the Western churches? Hugh Wybrew's authoritative, but splendidly readable, book traces step-by-step the story of the development of the Orthodox liturgy from the Last Supper to the present day and vividly conveys a sense of the experience of the worshipers...read more

Product Description: The missing ingredient in the celebration of the eucharist is very often a prayerfulness by the whole congregation that undergirds the liturgy and brings it to life. Author Charles Miller writes with clarity and conviction about what it means to "pray the eucharist" and his message needs to be heard whenever Christians gather to celebrate the mystery of redemption...read more

Product Description: Taking the statement of Lumen Gentium that participation in the Eucharistic celebration is "the source and summit of the Christian life" as a theme, Adolf Adam explains the historical development of the Mass, the structure and the parts of the Mass, the special forms of the celebration of the Mass, and Sunday and the Eucharistic celebration...read more

Product Description: Book by Larere, Philippe

Product Description: The Eucharistic celebration is 'the center of the Christian community,' 'the source and summit of the Christian life,' or further, 'the center and culmination of the entire life of the Christian community.' Root, source, center, summit: the Eucharistic celebration is at the heart of our faith and our life...read more

Product Description: Celebrate with Thanksgiving: Patterns of Prayer at the Communion Table