Order code: WOB | 978-1-61671-778-0 | Paperback | 6 x 9 | 80 pages | Language: English | Copyright Year: 2024
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In Waiting on the Beloved: The Eucharist as Self-Giving Love, celebrated author and teacher, Joyce Ann Zimmerman, cpps, animates readers to “contemplate God’s unfailing and abiding love” (from the preface). Through thought-provoking reflections, readers are drawn into quiet communion with the Beloved, where we become aware that our waiting “is a matter of waiting on ourselves to become ever more deeply aware, responsive, self-emptying, self-giving, seeking, yearning, and expecting” (preface).
The first three chapters survey God’s unfathomable love for us, and the last three chapters shift to us and what we do with this gift of divine love. While words are inadequate to express God’s love for us and our love for God, the Eucharist is at the heart of Divine love and is the ultimate expression of God’s self-giving love. This book is for anyone seeking to seriously encounter the Beloved in prayer and reflection, and anyone who desires to come to a deeper union with Christ in the Eucharist.
Zimmerman’s Waiting on the Beloved will be transformational for those who enter into it and dwell on the self-giving love of God through the power of the Eucharist. Throughout the book, Zimmerman invites the reader into moments of sacred pause; these pauses allow readers to contemplate the love we receive from God. The reader will grow to see the Eucharist as more than something we simply eat, but a gift of something we are to become. Anyone involved in pastoral ministry should read this book.
—Kristi Bivens, Associate Director for Lay Leadership Formation, Diocese of St. Cloud, MN
In Waiting on the Beloved: The Eucharist as Self-Giving Love, Sr. Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
—Carolyn Pirtle, Program Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy
This book is a work of the heart. Sister Joyce Ann Zimmerman draws the reader into the mystery of God’s self-giving love poured out in Jesus Christ and celebrated in the Eucharist. Her work illumines the invitation to live in communion with Jesus Christ, the Beloved. Readers will find in her beautifully written reflections on the Paschal Mystery rich food for thought and for personal prayer.
—Robin Ryan, PHD Professor of Systematic Theology, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL
Waiting on the Beloved: The Eucharist as Self-Giving Love is a wonderful examination of the Eucharistic presence in our lives and how our participation is not only necessary but vital. Sr. Joyce Ann points out that our calling as Christians begins as being chosen by God, and our participation in the Eucharist allows us to “die to ourselves” and grow through “resurrection” into a deeper relationship with the Divine. This being drawn further into God’s love in turn allows us to grow into relationship with each other. All those seeking to deepen their Eucharistic life should read this book.
—JP Fitzgibbons Pastoral and Parish Life Director, St. Joan of Arc Catholic Community, Minneapolis, MN
This supplement will be available soon.
