Holy Thursday is the most complex and prfound of all religious observances, saving only the Easter Vigil. It is in His last supper that Christ instituted the Eucharist and offers himself as the Passover Victim – the same sacrifice that every ordained priest offers to this day in exactly the same way.This beautifully written book by French author Francois Mauriac is a Catholic classic – one of the most powerful books at opening your eyes to the physical presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. With simple piety and a novelist’s mastery of language, Mauriac carries you with him directly to Jesus in the tabernacle, enabling uou to experience the tenderness and majesty found there by all believers.Come, then, and take your seat at the table of the Last Supper. Learn why millions of souls believe that Jesus is physically present in the Eucharist, and discover the love they experience when they meet Him there. You, too, can have the strength, the hope, and the consolation He gives to even the simplest of souls.
Francois Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and hournalist, a member of the Academie francaise , and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur in 1958. He was a lifelong Catholic.