Paperback: Originally published in Italian by the Vatican Press, this book offers readers insights into the sacrality which ought to surround the distribution and reception of Holy Communion. This book was sent to every Bishop in the United States and Canada.
Holy Communion is not simply a convivial moment of spiritual nourishment; it is the most peresonal encounter possible in this life between the faithful Christian and his Lord and God.
The best interior attitude for this encounter is one of receptivity, humility, and spiritual childhood. Such an attitude, by its very nature, is expressed through gestures of adoration and reverence.
We have eloquent witnesses to this truth from the tradition of the Church, summarized by the sayings cum amore ac timore (with love and fear) from the first millennium and quantum potes, tantum aude (dare to do as much as you can) from the second. To illustrate how this attitude manifests itself, the author shares stories of three "Eucharistic women" known to him from the Soviet Underground.
Dominus Est - It Is The Lord! (2008) encourages Catholics of the third millennium to treat the Lord, in the august moment of Holy Communion, in a manner appropriate to the Church's tradition.
Dominus Est - It Is The Lord! is translated from the Italian by the Reverend Nicholas L Gregoris.
"I have read the whole book with delight. It is excellent."- Francis Cardinal Arinze, Prefect, Congregation for Divine Workship
About the author: Athanasius Schneider was born in 1961 in Kirghistan (Central Asia) of deported German parents. In 1973, he emigrated to Germany; and he was ordained a priest in 1990. In 1997, he received his doctorate in patrology at the Augustinianum in Rome; and in 1999, he was appointed professor in the Major Seminary of Karaganda in Kazakhstan, Central Asia. In 2006, he was named auxiliary bishop of Karaganda.
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