Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship

by Christopher Levan

Book Overview

Bread speaks to us of our daily reliance upon a Maker, writes Christopher Levan. Perhaps more than any other food it brings us close to our roots as fellow creatures of God's creation. Bread is an apt metaphor for the spiritual journey.

Give Us This Day offers meditations for every day in Lent, inviting us to connect faith, "our daily bread," and the world in which we live, along with recipes that range from Shrove Tuesday "No-Fret...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596270462
• ISBN13: 9781596270466
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Seabury Books
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended for personal Catholic meditation, inspiration, and devotional shelves.

Written by ordained minister Christopher Levan, Give Us This Day: Lenten Reflections on Baking Bread and Discipleship is an anthology of meditations for every day of Lent, encouraging the reader to link faith ("our daily bread") with the day-to-day life in the modern world. Each of the forty holy days and Easter Sunday has a few pages devoted to it, with an opening prayer, a scriptural quotation, and insights for readers of all backgrounds into spiritual discipleship and what it means to be Christian. In addition, Give Us This Day features a number of recipes for bread, from French Baguettes to Sticky Buns to Croissants (An Excuse to Eat Butter) and No Fret Pancakes. "Guilt costs. There's a reason why priests say that confession is good for the soul. You will discover, first, that you are not alone... And second, that there is a miracle called absolution... You may think that this absolution is the get-out-of-guilt-free ticket. It's not. Rather, it is the affirmation that you are a dearly loved child of the earth. Nothing you do can alter that state. Even your atheism and scorn are not obstacles to the fact that the One who made this Universe loves you!" Highly recommended for personal Catholic meditation, inspiration, and devotional shelves.