Paulist Press Theology of the Eucharist Collection (7 vols.)
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Overview
The Paulist Press Theology of the Eucharist Collection examines the sacrament of the Eucharist from different cultural, historical, and theological angles. Written by priests and religious from various orders in the Church, these volumes are excellent resources for religious studies, seminary formation programs, and programs for parish liturgical ministers. Dennis C. Smolarski examines the impact of American individualism upon the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist, Kevin W. Irwin outlines the importance of the liturgy of the Eucharist from a pastoral perspective, and Ralph Wright delivers inspiration from 21 centuries of writing on the Eucharist by important Catholic figures. These and other volumes look closely at the Church’s teaching on the Eucharist and offer insight into this essential component of the Catholic faith.
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This collection is part of the Paulist Press Liturgy and Sacraments Bundle (21 vols.).
Key Features
- Offers insight into Church teaching on the Eucharist
- Examines the Eucharist from numerous angles
- Written by priests and religious from a variety of orders within the Church
- Provides a good foundation for religious and liturgical studies
Product Details
- Title: Paulist Press Theology of the Eucharist Collection
- Publisher: Paulist Press
- Volumes: 7
- Pages: 1,203
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Sacraments
Individual Titles
- The Eucharist: A Mystery of Faith by Joseph M. Champlin
- Eucharist and American Culture by Dennis C. Smolarski
- The Eucharist and Social Justice by Margaret Scott
- Eucharist: The Meal and the Word by Ghislain Lafont
- Models of the Eucharist by Kevin W. Irwin
- Our Daily Bread: Glimpsing the Eucharist through the Centuries by Ralph Wright
- Serving the Body of Christ by Kevin W. Irwin
In The Eucharist, popular writer and lecturer Joseph M. Champlin explores the eucharistic mystery from three different perspectives: as sacrifice, sacrament, and presence. In addition, he analyzes another mystery of faith: the Paschal, Passover, or Easter Mystery of Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and return.
Champlin outlines several desirable inner qualities with which we greet the Risen Christ as our guest, and describes ways in which the Eucharist can inspire us to sere others. Each chapter begins with a personal reflection by a eucharistic minister and concludes with a brief related excerpt from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Joseph M. Champlin has been a parish priest in the diocese of Syracuse for nearly 50 years, most recently serving as rector of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral. He lectures on pastoral subjects and is the author of over 50 books, including An Important Office of Immense Love.
Eucharist and American Culture is a unique resource that considers the impact of American individualism upon the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist. Short, insightful chapters offer key sociological points and liturgical understanding as well as summarize recent academic works and research results of Robert Bellah, Robert Putnam, and Jean Twenge. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal is consulted regarding the celebration of the liturgy.
Suitable for use as an undergraduate religious studies resource, this book will also find a place in courses in religion and culture and sociology of religion, as well as in seminary formation programs and programs for parish liturgical ministers.
Dennis C. Smolarski is a Jesuit priest who has been on the faculty of the department of mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University in California since 1982. He has a long-time interest in Western and Eastern liturgies and occasionally assists at Byzantine Catholic parishes. He is the author of How Not to Say Mass and Sacred Mysteries.
The Eucharist and Social Justice argues that the Eucharist is deeply political and potentially subversive. It explores the inseparable relationship between Eucharist and social justice. The eucharistic texts embrace a whole host of social issues around poverty and injustice, and this book teases out their wider implications. It also rediscovers the dimension that God intended for the Eucharist: to be the life of the world.
Margaret Scott’s twin passions, for the Eucharist and for justice, illuminate each other beautifully in this splendid book. We are shown how the Eucharist opens our eyes to the sufferings of this world and gives us hope—confident in God’s promises—to challenge the structures of injustice. This is a book born of the vivid personal experience of sharing the lives of some of the poorest people, especially in Latin America. It is also the fruit of study, prayer, and the Eucharist itself.
—Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP, director, Las Casas Institute of Blackfriars, Oxford, England
Margaret Scott is a member of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She has held leadership positions in her own congregation and in religious life at both national and international levels. Widely traveled in Asia, Europe, and South America, she has a global view and an experienced insight into the universal church and the international community. She is a regular speaker in different countries, the director of the St. Raphaela Center in Philadelphia, and a professor of social ethics at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The sacraments are rooted in the most basic elements of human existence. In Eucharist: The Meal and the Word, an essay of “meditative theology,” Ghislain Lafont reflects on the intimate connection between food and language in the Eucharist. Tracing the progression from the act of eating to the celebration of a festal meal, he then moves to language, because the festal meal often concludes with a discourse addressed to the heroes of the feast. Finally, he examines eucharistic discourse in order to relate the Eucharist to all other festal meals: what it remembers; what is given in it to eat; and what is realized. The Eucharist turns out to be the place of communion with God founded on the memory of Jesus Christ, hoped for in its perfection in eschatological time, and already realized in the symbolic celebration. And yet it also reveals itself as the symbolic fullness of human existence.
Ghislain Lafont is a Benedictine monk from the Abbey of La Pierre qui Vire in France. For over 20 years he was professor of theology at the Pontifical Atheneum Sant’Anselmo in Rome. He is the author of numerous books on systematic theology, including God, Time, and Being and A Theological Journey.
Models of the Eucharist outlines how the Eucharist is integral to and integrative of nothing less than the Christian life itself. Its premise is that the liturgy of the Eucharist—especially the post-Vatican II liturgy—should be a primary source for both eucharistic theology and eucharistic spirituality.
With great clarity and theological depth and a profound awareness of the pastoral needs of the church today, Monsignor Irwin has written a primary ‘model’ that will be a classic for this and future generations of liturgical scholars and practitioners.
—Wilton D. Gregory, archbishop of Atlanta, former president, United States Catholic Conference of Bishops
[Kevin Irwin] invites readers to approach Eucharist as a present enactment of the paschal mystery and a way of life that challenges us to renew in celebration and in life what it means to be a eucharistic church.
—Sr. Joyce Ann Zimmermann, editor, Liturgical Ministry
Kevin W. Irwin is a priest of the archdiocese of New York. He earned his STD degree from San Anselmo, Rome. He holds the Walter J. Schmitz Chair of Liturgical Studies and is the director of the liturgical studies program at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of several books on liturgy and sacraments, including 101 Questions and Answers on the Mass.
Our Daily Bread provides wisdom and inspiration about the Eucharist chosen from 21 centuries of writing. The diverse selections range from St. Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians—the earliest-surviving written account of the Eucharist—through Francis of Assisi and Julian of Norwich, to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and Pope Benedict XVI, with dozens of saints and scholars in between. The forward is written by Francis Cardinal George, archbishop of Chicago.
With poems and hymns to focus our gaze, Our Daily Bread will be a permanent resource for nourishing and deepening a person’s faith in the Eucharist—the summit and source of our life in Christ.
Ralph Wright, OSB, (b. 1938) studied at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire, England. He spent two years in the British Army before becoming a monk at Ampleforth Abbey. After coming down from Oxford, he spent four years studying theology at Fribourg in Switzerland. Immediately after ordination to the priesthood in 1970, he joined the abbey’s new community at St. Louis, Missouri, where he teaches theology in the school and is director of vocations.
Serving the Body of Christ is a careful collection, summary, and commentary of the Catholic Church’s official teaching on the Eucharist and ordained priesthood from Trent through Pope Benedict XVI, with avenues for theological exploration.
Kevin W. Irwin is a priest of the archdiocese of New York. He earned his STD degree from San Anselmo, Rome. He holds the Walter J. Schmitz Chair of Liturgical Studies and is the director of the liturgical studies program at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of several books on liturgy and sacraments, including 101 Questions and Answers on the Mass.
This collection is part of the Paulist Press Liturgy and Sacraments Bundle (21 vols.).
Key Features
- Offers insight into Church teaching on the Eucharist
- Examines the Eucharist from numerous angles
- Written by priests and religious from a variety of orders within the Church
- Provides a good foundation for religious and liturgical studies
Product Details
- Title: Paulist Press Theology of the Eucharist Collection
- Publisher: Paulist Press
- Volumes: 7
- Pages: 1,203
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Theology–Sacraments