Lamb's Supper

The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth by Scott Hahn, 163 pages

The Lamb's Supper is a book-length explication of the Divine Liturgy as the marriage feast of heaven and earth, the divinely given means by which the reconciliation between God and man is effected and the Church on earth drawn together and upraised into unity with the whole communion of saints into the inner life of God.  Hahn devotes much of the text to an examination of the book of Revelation, which he claims cannot be properly understood outside of a liturgical context.  In the process, he attempts to rescue the Apocalypse from the modern tendency to view it as a secret code of future predictions and restore its meaning as an unveiling of present and eternal spiritual realities, while reinvigorating the appreciation of the liturgy by reemphasizing its eschatological aspects.

As a writer, Hahn manages to be consistently interesting without compromising intellectually.  The greatest flaw about the book is its short length - Hahn could no doubt elaborate considerably on some of the points he makes, and it would be a pleasure to listen to him do so.