A book no Catholic can afford to miss.

A distinguished addition to Eucharistic literature.

While he deliberately eschews any form of apologetics and directs himself to Catholic readers or those of Catholic belief, his book will have a broader appeal to the overgrowing fraternity of those in other denominations who regard the Eucharist as the central sacrament and quintessence of Christianity. Thomas Merton writes in a manner instinct with spiritual fervor, his style in itself a form of illumination. His early judgments of man's tragic plight in today's world may seem too sweeping and almost presumptuous, but his religious statements lack nothing in subtlety, accuracy and intellectual grasp.