In Christ Now Meet Both East and West: On Catholic Eucharistic Action

What does it mean to be a eucharistic community? In Christ Now Meet Both East and West approaches the Eucharist from the perspective of Christianity being a religion of the table--a place where our thanksgiving happens by gathering as a people with Christ. Author Thomas O'Loughlin emphasizes that any renewal of ourselves as a eucharistic people involves discovering that we are then sent from that table to act, to be eucharistic in our communal activity. He explains that this task is not located in an awesome temple or an otherworldly place but in the heart of the everyday. Through this action of blessing, praising, thanking, and being eucharistic to our heavenly Father, we set about celebrating our faith eucharistically with the risen Jesus present among us.

Author: Thomas O'Loughlin
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 01/15/2023
Pages: 118
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780814668757
ISBN10: 0814668755
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | Catholic
- Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice | Sacraments
- Religion | Christian Theology | Soteriology

About the Author
Thomas O'Loughlin is professor emeritus of historical theology at the University of Nottingham, UK, the director of Studia Traditionis Theologiae, and the former president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain. O'Loughlin is the author of Eating Together, Becoming One: Taking Up Pope Francis's Call to Theologians, The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy: Why Good Liturgy Matters, and Washing Feet: Imitating the Example of Jesus in the Liturgy Today, from Liturgical Press.