This book is truly a fundamental work that ex-plores the underlying meaning of Christian sacra-ments and how they function. In a concise and readable way Tad Guzie offers a modern under-standing of the sacraments not as encounters that "give grace" but opportunities for people already in. God's grace to celebrate that fact. In the process he enriches our understanding of the symbolic as-pect of human life and the profound social dimen-sion of the Christian religion.

Tad Guzie is a professor of religious education at the University of Calgary, Alberta, and is the au-thor of severain books, including Jesus and the Eu-charist.