Jesucristo en sus misterios

by Columba Marmion

     Each year, the Church celebrates the Mysteries of Christ’s birth, life, death, and Resurrection. These are the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, and Easter — and each is the source of a particular grace, each has its own special gift for us.

     Christ in His Mysteries is Blessed Columba Marmion’s great meditation on the treasure-house of grace Christ offers to us in the Church’s liturgical year. Writing in the lively, compelling style that made him a favorite of Popes and lay faithful alike, Marmion explains:

          •  How the Mysteries of Jesus are now our mysteries — springs of living
              water we are meant to drink from.

          •  How Christ’s wisdom, His holiness, His strength, are now our wisdom,
              our holiness, our strength.

          •  How to acquire special graces during each liturgical season.

     This new edition of Christ in His Mysteries features a Foreword by Fr. Benedict Groeschel (a long-time admirer of Blessed Columba Marmion), and an Introduction by Aidan Nichols, OP.

     It also features a vibrant new translation that captures all of Marmion’s depth and spiritual power while remaining meticulously faithful to the French-language original. Aidan Nichols praises translator Alan Bancroft’s work as “felicitous... a supremely natural and fluent translation.”

Praise for Christ in His Mysteries
“Splendid... Powerful... This classic of Christian spirituality can easily serve as an excellent introduction to the monumental library of Abbot Columba Marmion.”
– Fr. Benedict Groeschel, writing in the Foreword

“Brilliant... Readers of Christ in His Mysteries have opened to them the theological and spiritual treasures of Catholicism at its best.”
– Aidan Nichols, OP, writing in the Introduction

“Writings of deep insight and great value... I owe more to Columba Marmion for initiating me into things spiritual than to any other spiritual writer.”
– Pope John Paul II

“An outstanding master of the spiritual life.”
– Pope Paul VI

The works of Marmion are “outstanding in the accuracy of their doctrine, the clarity of their style, and the depth and richness of their thought.”
– Pope Pius XII

“He revealed the soul of the liturgy to us, by which I mean all those elements of doctrine and of life which it holds in reserve within the visible envelope of its rites and symbols: he is the theologian of the liturgy.”
– Dom Lambert Beauduin

“Always, at each of his pages, one is bathed in a spiritual atmosphere — an atmosphere of prayer. Hence also light, security and peace.”
– Dom Raymond Thibaut

“Luminous, profound and elevating doctrine... The very breath of life seems to come from his pages because all the truths he expounds have first been lived in his own soul.”
– Abp. Guerry of Cambrai

“Dom Marmion makes you touch God.”
– Cardinal Mercier

Genres: Theology, Spirituality, Catholic

342 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Reverend Father Blessed Dom Columba Marmion, OSB, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion a Roman Catholic Benedictine Irish monk and the third Abbot of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium. Beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 3, 2000, Columba was one of the most popular and influential Catholic authors of the 20th Century. His books are considered spiritual classics.

Reviews

[Kevin de Ataíde · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gets my rare five-star review for a beautiful and Catholic synthesis of the inheritance of the Church from Christ. This the author describes as Christ's Mysteries, which unfold year upon year, in the solemnities and feasts of the Church calendar. This series of conferences are an excellent witness for the Faithful and the ease with which the author is able to snatch up a careful selection of scriptural passages from Holy Scripture is inspirational. This book works well used piece-meal for a year-around seasonal pick-me-up, or all together for a single retreat or major vigil, such as Advent or Lent.

[Mary Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

well written but you really have to know a lot of theology to read this book alot of it went over my head. also he quotes in latin.

[Curtis Seidel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Superb. I wonderful walk through the liturgical year.