Real Presence

The Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Blessed Eucharist Proved From Scripture in Eight Lectures Delivered in the English College, Rome by Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, 328 pages

As the full title explains, this is a printed collection of eight lectures which the future Cardinal delivered at the English College in Rome in 1836.  As might be expected by the audience, the lectures are academic in tone and content.  They are also straightforward defenses on Scriptural and philosophical grounds of the Catholic belief in the Real Presence, and there is no devotional spirit to them, nor do they reveal much about their author, who would soon become the first Archbishop of Westminster.  This does not mean that they have no value, but that there is little reason to prefer them to other texts on the same subject.