Not By Bread Alone

A Gallup survey once found that seventy percent of Mass-going Catholics could not say what the Eucharist really is. This set is a remedy: a clear, patient defense of what the Church has always believed about the Blessed Sacrament, arranged in three parts.

The Eucharist: The Sacrifice of the Mass. Many today have lost the sense that the Mass is a true sacrifice offered to God to appease Him for sin. This section recovers that meaning and shows why it stands at the heart of Catholic worship.

The Eucharist: The Corporeal Presence of Christ. For the past fifty years, liberal theologians have worked to remove from Catholic life the ancient belief that the Eucharist contains the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ, an attitude that has even worked its way into the words of hymns sung at Mass. Here you will find that belief explained and defended.

The Eucharist: As Explained by the Early Fathers. The Real Presence and the sacrifice of the Mass are ancient convictions of the Church. This section lays out the patristic witnesses to that faith and shows how to answer the way John Calvin, Martin Luther, and others tried to enlist the Fathers to demote the Eucharist.