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The Bread of Life, or, St. Thomas Aquinas on the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar is unavailable, but you can change that!

Divided into seven parts, The Bread of Life consists of thirty meditations on the Blessed Sacrament. Rawes has translated the original Latin into English and provided summaries for each meditation in the table of contents.

B. We have considered in the last two Meditations the priceless preciousness of the Blood of Jesus, as He shed it in the day of the agony of His Heart on the Cross. Now we think of it as it is drunk by the faithful in the Blessed Sacrament; and about this three things have to be thought of: (1) why the Holy Sacrament is given under two species; (2) why the people do not receive the Blood of Jesus under the species of