The Lamb's Supper by Dr. Scott Hahn

Why do we go to Mass? If you were like me as a child, you went to Church because your parents told you to. Then, as you got older, you maybe started to get “too busy” to go to Church or never really saw the point in it anyway. In his book The Lamb’s Supper, Dr. Scott Hahn wrestles with the Mass as the Book of Revelation happening in front of us. The Book of Revelation can seem odd when one is first reading it. There are angels covered in eyes, guys fighting dragons with swords coming out of their mouths, locusts with human faces on them, the stuff that nightmares are made of. But through Dr. Hahn’s book, the reader can see how all of this odd imagery points us to how God wants to encounter us in the Mass. The Book of Revelation centers on a marriage feast called the Supper of the Lamb. This marriage feast is the Mass. But who is getting married? We are. Whenever we go to Mass, we are making marriage vows with Almighty God and becoming united to him like a spouse. God desires more than a once-a-week obligatory meeting. He wants to be so closely united with you that he allows us to consume his Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity every single day. The Eucharist is the conjugal act of the Christian life and to deprive ourselves of it willfully is like telling your spouse you no
longer love them. In his book, Dr. Hahn breaks open all the rich imagery in the Book of
Revelation to show us how God wishes to transform our hearts and consume us as we consume him. There is no event in our lives that is more important or essential to our existence than going and praying at Mass as often as possible, at least every Sunday. So, will you decide to partake in the Lamb’s Supper?