I want to share with you exciting news about my new book called Eucharist, Bread of Life! It’s finally available! It was a little project of great love for me, so I’m happy to see it in print! I hope you like it!

I was thrilled to contribute to the Alive in the Word series from Little Rock Scripture Study. This great series offers a wide variety of resources for parishes or individuals seeking to deepen their faith either through personal or parish retreats or simply by individual reading and study. There is a lot of great stuff in this series, so check it out!

I was honored to write on the Eucharist, this gift and mystery so central to our life in Christ. When thinking how to approach this book, I decided I wanted to share with readers some passages from the Bible that helped me fall in love with the Eucharist, that were meaningful for my own faith journey.

Exploring the book of Exodus, for instance, I learned how our covenanting God fed his people in the desert and how in that meal some even saw him. In John’s Gospel, I learned how the bread Jesus offers is really his flesh, and his blood really drink, given us for life and eternal life. Again, our covenanting and now incarnate God continues to feed us! And then in 1 Corinthians, I learned what it means to celebrate the Eucharist as the Church, as brothers and sisters willing to “wait for one another,” loving each other, caring for each other, and worshipping in unity.

These passages have spoken to me so often in my walk with Christ, helping me draw near to the Church and to the Sacraments. And so, I simply wanted to share them with you. I hope this small study helps you deepen your love for the Eucharist too. Because that’s why I wrote it: to share that eucharistic joy that is now so central to my life as a believer.

Because to share in the Eucharist, St. John Paul II said, is to share in the “merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart.” That’s what the Eucharist does: it transforms the world. But it does so intimately and gently, by God touching each of us in the Sacraments of the Church. Which is what’s so beautiful about Scripture and why it’s so important. Scripture leads us to the Sacraments and the God present in them. Which, finally, is my truest hope: that you find him. The God who wants to feed you too.

I hope you enjoy the book. I hope it helps you get close to the Lord in the Eucharist.