Paperback: Jesus Our Eucharistic Love (1996, 2017) is a must read to deepen devotion to the Eucharist.
Let us ask the question: What is the Eucharist? It is God with us. It is the Lord Jesus present in the tabernacles of our churches with His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. It is Jesus veiled under the appearance of bread, but really and physically present in the consecrated Host, so that He dwells in our midst, works within us and for us, and is at our disposal. The Eucharistic Jesus is the true Emmanuel, the "God is with us" (Matthew 1:23).
"The faith of the Church," Pope Pius XII teaches us, "is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary who suffered on the Cross, who is present in the Eucharist, and who rules in Heaven."
With the Eucharist, God has truly given us everything. St Augustine exclaimed: "Although God is all-powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows now how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give."
The book also contains a treasure trove of Eucharistic devotional writings and examples from the Saints showing their stirring Eucharistic love and devotion.
Jesus Our Eucharistic Love (2017) is a new, unabridged translation of the original and latest Italian edition of Gesu, Eucaristico Amore (1973) as revised by the author. This latest edition is the most complete and accurate English translation. It is the most popular of the Academy of the Immaculate books and a valuable aid for reading meditatively before the Blessed Sacrament.
Jesus Our Eucharistic Love is currently available from the Academy of the Immaculate (USA) and the Holy Cross Catholic Bookshop (UK).
About the author: Father Stefano Maria Manelli (1933) was ordained a priest on 30 October 1955, the Solemnity of Christ the King.
In 1960, Father Stefano earned his degree in Sacred Theology defending his doctoral thesis on the Immaculate, at the Pontifical Theological Faculty “Seraphicum” (Rome). He was professor of theology (Patristic, Mariology) in the Seminaries of the Order, in the Archbishop’s Seminary of Benevento, in the Institute of Religious Sciences of Avellino. He was Prefect of Studies of the Conventual Franciscan Province of Naples. Around 1965, Father Stefano Maria began a long rediscovery and meditation of the Franciscan Sources and the Writings of St Maximilian Maria Kolbe.
On 8 September 1990 in Loreto, he is inspired to found a public association of the faithful – the Mission of the Immaculate Mediatrix (MIM) – whose members live the charism of the Institute according to their state of life and in different degrees of consecration to the Immaculate (Missionaries of the Immaculate with the Act of Consecration, Missionaries of the Immaculate consecrated private vow, the Franciscan Tertiaries of the Immaculate). This Association was canonically approved for the first time on 6 January 1991 by the Archbishop of Benevento, a second time on 24 May 1997 by decree of Archbishop Monsignore Serafino Sprovieri; the MIM was finally officially recognized in the decree of papal erection of the Franciscans of the Immaculate on 1 January 1998 for the friars and 9 November 1998 for the nuns.
He was Minister General of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate from 23 June 23 1990 to 11 July 2013.
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