The Meal that Reconnects: Eucharistic Eating and the Global Food Crisis

by Mary E. McGann

2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in Catholic Social Teaching

In The Meal That Reconnects , Dr. Mary McGann, RSCJ, invites readers to a more profound appreciation of the sacredness of eating, the planetary interdependence that food and the sharing of food entails, and the destructiveness of the industrial food system that is supplying food to tables globally. She presents the food crisis as a spiritual crisis—a call to rediscover the theological, ecological, and spiritual significance of eating and to probe its challenge to Christian eucharistic practice. Drawing on the origins of Eucharist in Jesus’s meal fellowship and the worship of early Christians, McGann invites communities to reclaim the foundational meal character of eucharistic celebration while offering pertinent strategies for this renewal.

Genres: Theology

240 pages, Paperback

Published February 15, 2020

Reviews

[Gregory]

McGann makes a lot of good points, but the overall value of the book is undermined by her liberal, progressive Roman Catholicism.