The source of life
Subtitle: exploring the mystery of the Eucharist
By: Christoph Cardinal Schönborn ; edited by Hubert Philipp Weber ; translated by Brian McNeil.
Contributors: Weber, Hubert Philipp.
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780824524777; 9780824524203
Subjects: Lord's Supper.; Mass.
Work titles: Wovon wir Leben Koennen.
Notes: "A Herder & Herder book."

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Where does the Mass come from?; title: A precious treasure in fragile vessels; title: The Last Supper and the Old Testament; title: The Jewish prayer of praise and thanksgiving; title: Praise in daily life; title: A chosen people, a royal priesthood; title: How did Jesus celebrate the Last Supper?; title: The Last Supper; title: A Passover meal; title: The breaking of the bread; title: Prayers of thanksgiving; title: A meal, and more than a meal; title: "This is my body, this is my blood"; title: Preliminary remarks; title: Symbolic and real actions; title: "This is my body"; title: "My blood, the blood of the covenant"; title: Not to be taken for granted; title: "Do this in memory of me"; title: Remembrance; title: The past becomes present; title: Recalling in a double sense; title: The Eucharist in the early church; title: The Mass, a sacrifice?; title: The liturgy of the Church; title: Sacrifice in the third Eucharistic prayer; title: Many questions about sacrifice; title: Many meanings of the word "sacrifice"; title: The Eucharist as memorial of the sacrifice of Christ; title: The consecration; title: Preliminary remarks : bread and body of Christ; title: The two lungs of the church-; title: The East : Incarnation and Eucharist; title: The West : God's word transforms everything; title: Thomas Aquinas : transformation of the essence; title: Conclusions; title: The presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist; title: "He is there"; title: Forms of presence; title: Eucharist : real presence of Christ; title: The presence of the Lord and the life of the church; title: "Whoever eats of this bread ..."; title: Communion; title: The indispensable preparation; title: Help in making one's preparation; title: The immediate preparation; title: In the Mass; title: Receiving communion; title: Boundaries of the reception of Communion; title: Eucharist and Baptism; title: Necessary boundaries; title: Boundaries of the Eucharistic community; title: One example : living with a burden; title: Pastoral care is necessary; title: Communion and the Christian life; title: The Eucharist and Ecumenism; title: The Eucharist in the Christian churches; title: Communion for non-Catholics?