Making the Eucharist Matter

Spiritual Life, Summer 2000 by Jordan, Regis

Making the Eucharist Matter. By frank Andersen, M.S.C. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1998. Pp. 144. Paper. $12.95.

In Making the Eucharist Matter, the author explores how the liturgy's meaning can come alive for us, how it can ennoble and involve us. Grounding his reflections in the biblical roots of the Eucharist and in the earliest practice of the church, he explores the extraordinary possibilities that the Eucharist affords us: to embody Jesus and his values, and to embrace the compassion he showed for all. Making the Eucharist Matter is ideal reading for anyone who longs for a rich experience of the Eucharist. The inclusion of questions for reflection and discussion makes it a valuable resource for personal reading as well as for faith-sharing groups.