Our Daily Bread: Glimpsing the Eucharist through the Centuries

by Ralph Wright

Publisher:

Paulist Press

, 2008

Overview

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.

Product Details

• Title: Our Daily Bread: Glimpsing the Eucharist through the Centuries
• Author: Ralph Wright
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Lord’s Supper › Catholic Church; Lord’s Supper Biblical teaching; Lord’s Supper › History
• ISBNs: 9780809145256, 0809145251
• Resource ID: LLS:OURDAILYBREAD
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:33:54Z

About Ralph Wright

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.