Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, the editor of the monumental Catechism of the Catholic Church,
a world-wide best seller, provides a brief and profound commentary on the second part of the Catechism, the Sacraments. Schonborn gives an incisive, detailed analysis of the Sacraments, providing a specific meditation for each week of the year on how better to live the Catholic faith with the aid of the Sacraments and the Mass, as explained in the Catechism. Through these 52 meditations, Schonborn's hope is for the reader not just to have a better grasp of the Catholic doctrine and belief, but especially to grow in a greater love of and devotion to the person of Jesus Christ.

"Faith is a whole. It has only one heart, one center, Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. Christ must therefore also be the center of catechesis whose object is putting people in communion with Jesus Christ; only He can lead us to the love of the Father in the Spirit."