Eucharist Parables: Forty Stories for Parishes and Groups

What if the most profound theology could be learned not from a textbook, but from a soldier kneeling in the mud, a child asking the wrong question at exactly the right moment, or an old man who checks the tabernacle lamp every morning on his way to work?

Eucharist Parables gathers forty original stories drawn from the full landscape of Eucharistic life — the Last Supper, the Real Presence, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Adoration, First Communion, the saints who were formed by the altar, and the feast of Corpus Christi. Each parable follows a different soul into an encounter with the living Christ in the Blessed Sacrament: a Roman soldier who cannot explain what he felt in an early Christian home; a scientist who loses her faith and finds it again at a Christmas Mass; a teenage girl who goes to Adoration because it is the only quiet place left; a baker who has always understood bread from the inside and finds, at the tabernacle, the completion of a thought bread was always trying to have.

Together, these stories form a portrait of the Eucharist as the Church has always known it — not as a doctrine to be memorized but as a person to be met, again and again, in the breaking of the bread.

Each story closes with a question for personal reflection or group discussion, making this book ideal for RCIA groups, parish small groups, Adoration communities, First Communion families, retreat programs, or anyone who wants to fall in love again with the gift at the heart of the Catholic faith.

Come to the table. The bread is broken. He is here.