We offer readers a two-volume English edition of all the books "Meditations on the Eucharist", which Fr. T. Dajczer (1931-2009) published during his lifetime. We owe this edition to Fr. Bryan Storey (1935-2018), who lived these contents and edited them wonderfully. It is an expression of gratitude to him and a significant part of the appendices is dedicated to him.
God desires to share his life with us, now on earth and in eternity. This truth belongs to what we describe as sanctity, but we hardly understand it. God’s Loving Presence shows it to be possible and available for everybody who desires it. The Eucharist is the way: it includes the Holy Sacrifice of Christ, our communion with Him, and His presence among us, affecting our lives when we choose to stay with her. When we allow Him to act, we see that we have not yet imagined our destination.
Select quotations:
There in the Eucharist I can talk to Him with the eyes of faith, look at Him, admire Him, contemplate, adore. I may share my troubles, my worries and discover a Friend in whom I can always confide and who with such unusual love wants to give me everything. For in every way He is all Love. He wants to transform me into Himself. (p.32)
God miraculously comes onto our altars … to communicate Himself completely to us so that we find utter fulfilment in this Eucharistic encounter. It’s this that inspires every human meeting. (p.44)
We bump into each other, just brush against one another. Everyone’s lonely, often unconsciously. Relationships are mostly skin deep, without depth, superficial unless forced into something more. Yet our Eucharistic God invites us to the real challenge of greater love. (p.48)
One thing is needed – love for the Eucharist based on faith. Love is born by faith. This solves every problem. Love the Eucharist and you will know what to do; love the Eucharist and do what you will. (p.180)
About the book:
I can hardly wait to read lines from Father Tadeusz. Every line is more and more meaningful; I can hardly relate to God without reference to these jewels. It is doing more for me than The Imitation of Christ which helped me so much in my student days.
Fr. Bryan Storey (p.264)
An extraordinary encounter with God hidden in the Eucharist, with beauty, with love embracing all areas of our lives. An Encounter with the power of the beautiful, simple word.
Halina Labonarska, Actress
Father Dajczer’s books on the Eucharist are the most beautiful that I have ever read. They opened up perspectives for me that renewed my entire priestly life.
Fr. István Katona, Publisher
To contemporary men and women, to those who no longer discern God on the altar, our author directs Eucharistic meditations. He says we will not convert, nor choose to follow God to the end, if we do not believe that God loves us exclusively and that He reveals this love to us every day from the Eucharistic altar.
† Most Rev. Alfons Nossol (p.18)