Fire of God's Love - 120 Reflections on the Eucharist

Science falters and poetry fails when we try to speak of the Eucharist, but across the centuries saints, theologians and ordinary Catholics have nevertheless found words to express the inexpressible: Jesus, fully present, body, blood, soul and divinity, offers himself to humanity in this sacrament. Mike Aquilina brings together 120 of those reflections to encourage and inspire you as you ponder the fire of God's love revealed in the mystery of the Eucharist.

It is Jesus whom the saints know in the Eucharist, the sacrament of the altar. There he is present, Body, Blood, soul and divinity. Under the appearance of a small bit of bread, a drop of wine, God abides in his entirety. The finite contains all infinity, drawing us into communion, making us like himself, sharing his divine nature as generously ss once he took up our human nature.

That infinite love is the power behind the words of the saints, the words of Catholics ancient and modern that appear in this book. The Eucharist inspired them to extend the range of science and art, to elevate human words beyond their ordinary reach, to raise them to heaven, as the Eucharist raises the Church even now.