No Wonder They Call It the Real Presence: Lives Changed by Christ In Eucharistic Adoration [Paperback]

David Pearson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2002

Many Catholics spend time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. David Pearson reports in a detailed interview the remarkable and inspiring stories of Catholics whose lives were transformed through their experience of Christ in Eucharistic adoration.

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In a movement that is sweeping through the Catholic Church, many people have adopted the practice of spending an hour a week worshipping Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. People who regularly participate in Eucharistic adoration testify to significant personal changes that they have experienced as a result of praying in the Lord’s presence at the altar. In No Wonder They Call It the Real Presence, journalist David Pearson reports in a detailed interview the remarkable and inspiring stories of Catholics whose lives were transformed through their experience of Christ in Eucharistic adoration.

About the Author

David Pearson is the Features Editor for the National Catholic Register, a weekly newspaper. He has been an editor or senior writer over the past fifteen years. David resides in North Branford, Connecticut.

Product Details

• Paperback: 177 pages
• Publisher: Servant Books (August 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569553246
• ISBN-13: 978-1569553244
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Inspiring book, May 26, 2003

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Paul Iacovitti (Downey, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Wonder They Call It the Real Presence: Lives Changed by Christ In Eucharistic Adoration (Paperback)

This book is a series of interviews with 9 different people talking about their experiences in Eucharistic adoration. This is a powerful & well written book once I started reading it I didn't want to put the book down. These people showed how adoration has given them a stronger faith and a deeper love of Jesus. These are people from all walks of life and with different experiences, some are converts, some have suffered greatly, but they all tell about the peace they have found in christ through the eucharist. This book has inspired me to spend time every day in adoration. I recommend this book to anyone interested in a deeper prayer life.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonder of a Book, October 11, 2002

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joseph pronechen (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

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I found this book to be a real eye-opener about Eucharistic Adoration. Dave Pearson makes you feel like you're sitting right there beside him and being amazed at the powerful stories of each of these people at the moment they're telling them.
Each of the men and women have such fascinating, such amazing, and yet such straightforward stories about how their lives were transformed by spending time with Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in church. These are real people and Pearson goes right to the heart of what they're saying to us readers.
The good examples include the way people converted from no real beliefs, or from other faiths, by the power of the Eucharistic Jesus. How their lives were strengthened, how they were able to bear up under struggles that would flatten many people. And how happy and peaceful their lives are because of it.
Pearson puts this book together in a very readable style. The way he captures each person's story and how his or her life has been immeasurably enriched because of Eucharistic adoration becomes a real inspiration for the reader.
There are so many good examples of faith and real unshakable hope in these memorable pages that some of them can't help but touch and encourage any reader. By their personal examples, these people really help convince a reader that Jesus is really and fully alive and present in the Eucharist.
Ultimately, I think this book will even inspire readers to try Eucharistic adoration and see how their own lives can be and will be transformed. I highly recommend it. It would also make a great gift to someone who may be struggling in his or her life and needs to know of the major help they can receive through Eucharistic adoration.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll Adore This Book, September 17, 2002

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Mark Gordon (Westerly, RI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Wonder They Call It the Real Presence: Lives Changed by Christ In Eucharistic Adoration (Paperback)

In "No Wonder They Call It The Real Presence," David Pearson conducts a multi-voiced chorus of praise to our Lord present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

The people David interviews -laymen and women all - are themselves a mirror of the Eucharist: quietly hiding beneath the common things of this world and yet in their substance full of power and majesty and grace. In a time when tragedy is so often twisted into farce, these folks tell of lives transformed through the renewing of their minds and hearts in adoration of Jesus, present in the Blessed Sacrament.

This book will remind you that while laymen and priests and bishops may sometimes fail us, the Church never does, because only through her do we receive the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.