"Eucharistic miracles are these kind of odd aberrations where the ordinary looks kind of boring, but then these extraordinary miracles where the host turns into blood or flesh is actually really the ordinary thing. But we think of it as a miracle."

The Liturgy Guys look at some of the roots of the eucharist in creation and in human culture. How is wine a hierophany? What is a hierophany anyway? Listen to find out!

We revisit one of Denis McNamara's favorite philosophers, Jean Hani, and his book The Divine Liturgy: Insights Into Its Mystery. Hani is one of the foremost thinkers on the sacrifice of the mass.

Let the quiz commence! Test your baptism knowledge against intellectual titans, Denis McNamara, Christopher Carstens, and Jesse Weiler.

Christopher Carstens throws a curveball question to the group. Why do the Liturgy Guys believe in God? And why do we believe Christ our savior? This season is all about the Eucharist, but we can't begin to understand the Blessed Sacrament without asking ourselves these questions.

Pope Benedict XVI, through his teachings and leadership, laid the foundation for everything The Liturgy Guys are about. This week we discuss his enormous impact on the Church, and on our own lives.

We're talking the saints. We're concluding the USCCB document on The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church. It concludes with sanctity and holiness. And so we'll look at some of the saints who have had the Eucharist as a center of their life on their way back to God. And take that as the final word that the bishops want us to hear. Gain sanctity.

The topic today is conversion. Turning away from sin. The sacrament of penance is a great way to respond to the gift of the Eucharist.

The Eucharist transforms us. We are alive in Christ, living more fully, and then we take that divine life out to the world. 

How do we respond to the gift of the Eucharist? With worship and thanksgiving. That's this week on The Liturgy Guys.