I'm Not Being Fed: Discovering the Food That Satisfies the Soul

To understand in a more informed way the differences that make Catholicism so valuable as opposed to the other Christian options,

This book has reinforced all that I know and love about the Eucharist. God has blessed the American Roman Catholic Church with Jeff and his all-round knowledge of the interfaith Christian community. Thank you Jeff Cavins and Annunciation Press.

I loved this book. Jeff has a comforting, welcoming style that coupled his own life experiences with bible scriptures, and Catholic doctrine. I too was brought up in the Catholic faith and never felt that I understood the wonders of the Eucharist until I left the faith and returned. This book will explain and welcome any former Catholic back to the journey of life. It is also a very powerful resource for Christians to understand the differences of other Christian faiths and the Catholic family.

The author Jeff Cavins really answered the question that we have asked ourselves " Why am I not being fed". What can we do about it. Highly recommend this book not only for Catholic's but other faith's as well. WE ARE The Church!

This is an awesome book.It mirrored so much of what I experienced.It’s gives me hope that I am well rooted in my Catholic faith. Thanks you!

This excellent book is both a very personable read and intellectually satisfying in its appreciation of the Catholic biblical and theological tradition. I heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to deepen their own appreciation of the Catholic faith. Other Chrisitans would also find it helpful in genuinely understanding the Catholic understanding of the eucharist as the true Body and Blood of Christ. Jeff Cavins exegesis on Johh's Gospel, Chp 6, is especially relevant in that regard.

I read this as a follow to Jeff's Life on the Rock. I wanted to find out how to help my fellow Catholics. It is an excellent discourse on the Eucharist. It moves me to pray about evangelization in our church.

Jeff Cavins offers a serious and sincere study of the Eucharist, suggesting that, as a young Catholic, he was truly "being fed" by the Blessed Sacrament (the Eucharist), but his failure to understand the reality of that sacrament led him to look elsewhere. In fact, he spent twelve years as a Protestant minister until study and self-examination brought him home, once again, to the Catholic faith--and to "the source and summit of the Christian life" (see CATECHISM, #1324). Although there is little new in Mr. Cavins's analyses and arguments, his reasoning here is clear, concise, and cogent. There are, he says, five types of Catholic "drop-outs" (see pp. 22-23), but all departing Catholics (and many who attack the Church) seem to share in either blasphemy or ignorance (pp. 27-31). Particularly compelling--and tragic (because it's true)--is his suggestion that far too many Catholics are guilty, in a word, of sloth: they know very little about the Church, and their intellectual apathy often leads to spiritual atrophy and to moral indifference or to religious relativism. "God's grace is free," says Mr. Cavins, "but it isn't cheap" (p. 140). Sloth, he might have added, is a deadly or capital sin. He is particularly effective in showing how some of the ancient heresies (such as docetism) find new life in contemporary attacks on Catholicism (pp. 48-50, 113); how language studies fortify the Catholic position about the Real Presence (e.g., p. 116); about the "Great Exchange" and the idea of covenant (p. 105); about the Four Amens (a particularly well-done section of the book), based upon John 6 (see pp. 95-99); and a mini-Bible study of the idea of the Lamb (pp. 93-95). This slim volume will be particularly useful to those Catholics who have left the Church in a forlorn attempt to find Truth (Who is someOne, not just something) in one of about 35,000 self-styled Christian denominations, all claiming to be based only upon scripture (see pp. 57-64). The multiplication of such denominations is chaos (p. 20), and many of the pastors of these ecclesial bodies--good and decent men and women--find themselves struggling to be, ironically, their own popes as they discover that they are interpreting scripture and wondering if they are doing so well and rightly for their people. As a man of deep conviction--one who left the Church and then humbly returned--Mr. Cavins establishes strong positions, but what is at stake is nothing less than Truth. This is not a deeply theological book; it offers little in the way of new philosophical exploration. It is, rather, a short work of apologetic synthesis: Mr. Cavins believes with all his mind, heart, strength, and soul that Christ Himself awaits us in the tabernacles of the Catholic Church, which leads Mr. Cavins to suggest that we have the moral duty to pray, to study, and to think about that. Suppose he is right. Suppose Christ does await us. What then? (He answers that question on pp. 134-135.) He is at his best when he says that, after his return to the faith, he broke down and wept at a public lecture (p. 141) as he recounted the joy of his return to the Eucharist. This is a readable, thoughtful, and passionate book--one I recommend particularly for Catholics who want to come home. As one business used to put it: "We'll leave the light on for you!" Come home and help us build a fire to be seen around the world--a truly catholic (and Catholic) fire! Having recommended the book, I am compelled by honesty to upbraid the publisher for a sloppy printing and editing job: Along the way, we find such errors as misspellings of such words as "prophesies" (93), misuse of the semicolon (p. 132), misuse of the hyphen throughout (as in "recently-discovered item" [which should not be hyphenated]), poor proofreading (p. 85), misuse of ellipses (e.g., pp. 93, 95), misuse of a verb ("quotes") for a noun ("quotations"--p. 133), misuse of the phrase "can't help but" (p. 79), misuse of a colon after alinking verb (pp. 49, 123), failure to use the word "else" after "anybody" (p. 38), and an incorrect title (p. 53). Minor quibbles? Certainly. But the publisher is charging for the book (which is all right, of course), and therefore the reader deserves a professionally produced and well-edited product. The book also lacks an index, which would prove helpful to its readers. Ascension Press must revise its editorial process. All in all, I repeat, this is, despite the regrettable editorial lapses, a book I recommend--especially for Catholics whose catechesis (religious education) has been inadequate (and that is far too many people in far too many places). Mr. Cavins can be of help, if you will give him two or three hours of your time.

BecauseJeff experienced the non-Catholic side of the matter, he is eminently capable of presenting the true teaching and counteracting the objections, now that he has returned to his original Faith. It is important to fully learn and understand one’s Faith.

Very informative read. Well done.