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.

The Eucharist is still the undiscovered land, the unknown world. Wanting to live the Eucharist, we need to hear the voice of grace that encourages: Set your foot on the undiscovered land, take the first, second and third step and He will lead you on. He, your God, who by rising from the dead has overcome all obstacles, now wants to introduce you to this stunning truth that is regularly occurring on our altars. (p.23)

BOOKS 1-3 CAN BE FOUND IN "AMAZED BY THIS LOVE"   by Father Tadeusz Dajczer

Book 1- The Mystery of Faith:Meditations on the Eucharist

 

Part I

Faith Bowing Humbly

Your Participation Is the Way

Like the Prodigal Son

As Background

When God Is Closest

Part II

The Sacrament of the Present Moment

In the Search of Our Hidden God

Eucharist Giving Birth to Priests

Part III

Interior Silence

Pounding Waves

Faith “Touches” God

“Where Do You Live, Teacher?”

Part IV

Through the Contrast

Everything Is Given Me from You

I Have Only You

Amazed by This Love

 

FOREWORD BY POPE JOHN PAUL II'S FORMER SECRETARY,

STANISLAW DZIWISZ,
METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP OF KRAKOW,POLAND

Book 2- Amazing Nearness: Meditations on the Eucharist

 

Part I

He Seeks Until He is Weary

 

The Gift of Forbearance

So Very Close

Part II

God’s Greatness

The Language of the Elements

Demolition of Hippo

Part III

In Weariness You Seek Me

Two Realities

Lord Jesus, Come in Glory

Part IV

You Need My Silence

Jesus’s Tears

Only Say the Word…

Defenceless Love

God just can't stop loving me however bad I may be. He waits for me to go to Him all the time.  He's always there. In his untiring, constant explorations, Father Tadeusz puts the microscope closer still to the reality of God without whom there's no reality.  St. Augustine lost everything he'd ever worked for at the end of his life but he lost nothing. In fact, he gained. In this second book of his meditaions on the Eucharist, the author brilliantly demonstrates how it can be the same for each of us. All our losses can be gains. He introduces us to pathways of untold spiritual joy. In the year of the Priest, this is the book which needs to be on every Priest's bookshelf, to be constantly read and meditated upon- not just by us Priests. It's a message for us all.

 

It contains a foreword by Archbishop Józef Michalik, President of The Polish Conference of Bishops in which he says he suspects the author is 'unable not to talk about God's Love'; he shows us how amazingly near God is in the Eucharist; he strengthens us by saying that in seeking God, we are finding Him; we find Him not through knowledge but through the Eucharist; the book is an exceptional commentary on the Pope's Encyclical “Deus caritas est;” the book is warmly optimistic praying theology.'

Donal Foley-Theotokos Catholic Books
 

Amazing Nearness - Meditations on the Eucharist 2   By Fr Tadeusz Dajczer   This is the second volume in a series of profound new books on the Eucharist. Like its predecessor, it's ideal for anyone who wants to draw closer to Christ in the tabernacle. It opens up a whole new world as we can come to realize just how much God really loves us in the Eucharist.   It contains a foreword by Archbishop Józef Michalik, President of The Polish Conference of Bishops in which he says he suspects the author is 'unable not to talk about God's Love'; he shows us how amazingly near God is in the Eucharist; he strengthens us by saying that in seeking God, we are finding Him; we find Him not through knowledge but through the Eucharist; the book is an exceptional commentary on the Pope's Encyclical “Deus caritas est;” the book is warmly optimistic praying theology.'

This is what a Priest-reader said:   "God just can't stop loving me however bad I may be. He waits for me to go to Him all the time.  He's always there. In his untiring, constant explorations, Father Tadeusz puts the microscope closer still to the reality of God without whom there's no reality.  St. Augustine lost everything he'd ever worked for at the end of his life but he lost nothing. In fact, he gained. In this second book of his meditaions on the Eucharist, the author brilliantly demonstrates how it can be the same for each of us. All our losses can be gains. He introduces us to pathways of untold spiritual joy. In the year of the Priest, this is the book which needs to be on every Priest's bookshelf, to be constantly read and meditated upon- not just by us Priests. It's a message for us all."   Fr Tadeusz Dajczer graduated from the theological faculty in Warsaw, Poland. He later studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he received his DD. For many years he worked as a professor at the Academy of Catholic Theology and the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in Warsaw. In 1994 he was awarded the title of Professor of theological sciences from the President of Poland.   Published 2009 by Eucharistic Renewal Books

Book 3 - Increase Our Faith: Meditations on the Eucharist

CHAPTERS

• Eucharist, core of interior life
• My ‘yes’ is my worship
• Eucharist, pathway to a new self
• Concern for souls
• True love for the departed
• Drama the world needs to discover
• Every day prepares
• For God’s glory?
• Eucharistic love gives birth to saints
• Life as liturgy
• Tough challenge to find freedom
• Emptiness God longs to fill
• Father, I adore You
• A woman of the Eucharist

 

Foreword by Archbishop Joseph Michalik
Metropolitan of Praemislia
and Chairman of the Polish Conference of Bishops

‘Increase our faith’ is the third in the series of Father Professor Tadeusz Dajczer’s books on the Eucharist. My conviction grows that the author could write more of these books; he could be writing them all the time since he is totally wrapped up in the Eucharist; he is fascinated and in love with It, quite unable not to talk about this great Love. It has been like this since the day Father Tadeusz discovered that God fell in love with us to the point of total Eucharistic surrender in the living Mystery of the Resurrected Christ.

 

COST OF BOOKS FOR THOSE BUYING DIRECT FROM OUR REPRESENTATIVE, STEPHEN DAUNCEY IN NORTH CORNWALL

    AMAZED BY HIS LOVE  £6 per book

    GOD'S LOVING PRESENCE   £5.50p  per book

       We would like to thank Father Placidus Ezeh,Parish Priest for allowing us to sell copies of the book in St Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Tintagel. Also thanks to Judy Baker who will sell the books as part of the Repository she runs in the mission. The Repository can be found in the entrance hall of the Social Centre. Finally thanks to Michael Pettett who has helped to publicise the books in the Mission Newsletter and on the Church Website at https://stpaultintagel.chessck.co.uk/ 

Site run by Myke Rosenthal-English for Eucharistic Renewal Books and Fr. Bryan Storey

“This is not a book, this is an experience, this is an invitation to a deep inner renewal and prayer” a Welsh nun wrote of the first book in the series “Meditations on the Eucharist”. And she continued: “it is not like other books on the Eucharist at all, it is interactive or should be... it is quite a revelation... but to grow in truth is such a wonderful thing…”. 

When we start reading “Amazed by this love” or “God’s Loving Presence” (except the first part of the first book of the volume), we get the impression that these are the author's confessions. However, this is not the case. It's just a literary form. The author as spiritual guide could knew numerous souls and now accurately  guesses the reader's spiritual experiences and inspires dialogue. In this way, the reader begins to listen and to talk to himself and to God. Completely new insights rise in the reader, which vitalize faith and give new cognition of God and human life.

First of all, in these books we will encounter a fire that will be able to ignite our love for God hidden in the Eucharist. This fervor can make us willingly accept simple insights concerning our everyday lives that may lead to a new nearness with God. Upon talking about our everyday experiences, the books reveal supernatural meaning of them.

Fr. T. Dajczer was an outstanding scholar in religious studies. He studied at the Gregorian University in Rome. However, it was his stay at the University of Chicago in 1971– 1972 that was decisive. There he met his scientific master Mircea Eliade and then continued his work in Poland in the field of phenomenology of religion. He came to know homo religiosus (Eliade's term) on the example of the culture of Californian indigenous people. In this way, he acquired deep knowledge about man, which he also used in his service as the spiritual guide.

He worked at the university (present name: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) in the years 1973–2001, obtaining all scientific degrees and titles.

His book „The Gift of Faith” achieved  great impact all over the world. It was issued in 30 languages and in 36 countries in a total of hundreds of thousands of copies. It has a logical structure and a critical apparatus unparalleled in the literature on spiritual life. At the same time, it is written in the language of experience using metaphors, symbolic expressions and rhetoric means typical of homiletics or pastoral texts. They create a unique synthesis of spiritual life written in the language of experience. Fr. Dajczer, who puts everything into structures with his outstanding scientific mind, created a work that proposes a new paradigm of practical theology 

and theology of spiritual life. It is also noticeable with the present books “Meditations on the Eucharist”.
Each chapter of both volumes constitutes a whole, so they can be read separately and not in order. Sometimes it is enough to read one paragraph to receive the needed impulse for spiritual life. 
In short forewords to both volumes, we have pointed out just a few of the most characteristic themes that the reader can discover in them. Both volumes of meditations in the context of the Eucharist touch probably all important issues on the way to God. However, they are unfinished, because they open many paths along which the reader can go towards God and write further chapters with his life.
The distinctive form of the English text in the current publication is due to Father Bryan Storey. At the first stage of preparation, the distinguished Polish linguist Artur Polit (living now in Scotland) prepared an English philological translation of each book. Then Fr Storey was interpreting the translation in his inner language and lived by the content of the texts. In the same time he dedicated himself to assist people in their spiritual lives. This also was helpful to clearly express what was taken from the books and he lived by. In this way the final English text of the books expresses also his spiritual life. He loved terse style, enabling to express much by modest means. And this is the style of the books “Meditations on the Eucharist”. It is already confirmed that they appeal to native speakers of English. More than five years after his departure we dedicate this edition also to him. In this way, we express our gratitude to the deceased interpreter. We also devote a lot of space to him in the appendices placed in the end of each volume.
A series of six books, “Meditations on the Eucharist”, is being successively published in eight languages and in ten countries. The entire series has already been published in Poland, Italy, Spain and Hungary. This edition offers the entire series in English for the first time. 
We express our sincere thanks to the authorities of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, which was the alma mater of Fr. T. Dajczer. We would especially like to thank prof. Tomasz Wielebski – director of the Institute of Theological Sciences – for directing the publication to the University's publishing plans. We would also like to thank the dean of the Faculty of Theology, prof. Piotr Tomasik for supporting the project. We would like to express our gratitude to Joanna Dziurzyńska – director of Scientific Publisher – for carefully implementing the project.
Editors

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NORTH CORNWALL REPRESENTATIVE

STEPHEN DAUNCEY

St Paul the Apostle Catholic Church,Tintagel,Cornwall,UK

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