Non-Fiction: J.C. Sergott
If there is one idea that undergirds all of my non-fiction work, it is this:
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Communion is the Mission.
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My non-fiction work focuses on the importance of community in living the Christian life. From the perspective of Catholic laity, this means fostering deep bonds of community centered on our Eucharistic identity.
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How do we as Catholic laity live vibrant, meaningful lives of faith in a postmodern worls that has become quite hostile to the faith?
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My most important work in this regard is the Summa Communio series, a series of books focused on building lay community in the world today.
Summa Communio book 1
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Everyone Knows the Ache.
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Our culture is awash in critiques of postmodern life, but voices offering real hope are rare.
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In A Eucharistic People, Jon C. Sergott names the wound at the heart of today’s Church — the loss of lived communion among the laity — and casts a prophetic vision for healing.
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Drawing from a range of sources, Sergott reveals the Spirit’s call to embody the communion we receive in the Eucharist, and offers a compelling summons to live it.
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Theologically rich yet accessible, convicting yet hopeful:
A Eucharistic People shines a light through the valley and offers a remedy for our ache — the Body of Christ alive again, the dry bones rising as one.
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How do we go from just recieving the Eucharist more to being
a more Eucharistic people?
Our Eucharistic DNA
Summa Communio book 2
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Our Parishes Are Failing.
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Though we feel it, we hesitate to say it – but the signs are everywhere.
We reach for parish programs, because they’re safe and measurable, but they’re just band-aids, incapable of touching the deeper wound.
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In this second book of the Summa Communio series, Jon C. Sergott builds on the theological foundation of A Eucharistic People and applies it to the crisis of parish life. He shows that true renewal will not come through programs or quick fixes, but only through a comprehensive way of life among the laity — communion lived, embedded, and sustained over generations.
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Our Eucharistic DNA offers both a diagnosis and a way forward: reawakening the communion written into us by the Eucharist, the code that still defines who we are.
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We don't need more youth ministers, better programs,
or even more priests necessarily.
We need SAINTS.
MISSION: COMMUNIO
MISSION: COMMUNIO is a dossier, a field guide for young Catholics and new converts coming into their own.
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The truth is that the Christian life is, in most respects, a battle. For the past several generations, almost none of us have been trained in how to live the Christian life well.
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This book is meant to orient the young adult Catholic, focused mostly on young men, in how to live the Catholic faith well in the postmodern wastelend in which we find ourselves.
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Short, fast read.
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Great gift for the new convert or a young adult Catholic friend.