First published in 1931 and now republished by Sophia Institute Press, Holy Thursday by the French Nobel laureate, Francois Mauriac (1885-1970), deserves to be more widely known. The work of an imaginative writer rather than a theologian, this slim volume of 97 pages, excluding notes, reflects its author’s profound Catholic faith, his familiarity with the liturgy from his childhood in Bordeaux and his own vivid response to the Scriptural texts: “No man knows himself, if he has not looked at his soul in the light of the Host lifted above the ciborium” he comments.