Christ In His Mysteries, Blessed Columba Marmion, Part 1 Of 2, Full-Leng...

Christ In His Mysteries, Blessed Columba Marmion, Part 1 Of 2, Full-Length Catholic Audiobook
18 September 2017
Feastday of St Joseph of Cupertino

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The Sovereign Pontiff Benedict XV used Dom Marmion's conferences (to employ the Pope's own words) “for his spiritual life;” and speaking to Mgr. Szepticky, Archbishop of Lemberg, the Vicar of Christ said, pointing to one of the volumes, “Read that; it is the pure doctrine of the Church.”
Blessed Columba Marmion, OSB, born Joseph Aloysius Marmion (April 1, 1858 – January 30, 1923) was a Roman Catholic Benedictine Irish monk and the third Abbot of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium. Beatified by Pope St. John Paul II on September 3, 2000, Bl. Columba was one of the most popular[1] and influential[2] Catholic authors of the 20th Century. His books are considered spiritual classics.
In 1895, Marmion gave a retreat for a small group of nuns. The notes for those talks contained in kernel an idea he would develop during the next 20 years – meditating upon it in prayer, and refining and polishing it in the many talks he gave as a popular retreat master.[61] In its finished form it became Christ, the Life of the Soul (1917) – a book that was first published privately, but then rapidly, unexpectedly, became an "overwhelming success"[62] in the Catholic world.
At the time of its publication, much Catholic literature was a mere "rehash... of pious thoughts,"[63] marked by a "sentimental emphasis," and a tendency towards a sterile "refinement of interior analysis."[64] "Little attention was paid to the Bible, the Fathers and the great masters of the spiritual life."[64] In this atmosphere, Marmion's work seemed like "something new,"[64] even "revolutionary."[63] "It was as if the desert had received its long-awaited rain."[62] His books "initiated a profound spiritual revival the influence of which... permeated the whole Catholic world."[65]
Yet there was essentially "nothing new" in Marmion's work.[66] Rather, his "revolution" was effected by "a return to what was fundamental,"[67] specifically his restoration of "Christ as the center of all... spiritual thinking."[66]
A second major theme of his work is the doctrine of divine adoption in Christ.[68] Again, this idea[69] was not original with Marmion; it is clearly set forth in the New Testament, particularly in the writings of St. Paul.[70] But although the doctrine had been addressed by many spiritual writers before him, "it would be difficult to find another who had given the mystery such preeminence, making it, as he does, the beginning and the end of the spiritual life. And with Dom Marmion it is not so much a theory or a system, as a living truth that acts directly on the soul."[71] Some believe the Catholic Church will one day formally declare Marmion the Doctor of Divine Adoption.[72]
His last years
Sources for Marmion's thought include, preeminently, the Bible (especially St. Paul and St. John), the Church Fathers, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Liturgy (i.e., the Mass, the Divine Office, the sacraments),[73] as well as St. Francis de Sales (1567–1622) and Msgr. Charles Gay (1815–1880).[74]
As a 20th-century writer, Marmion is notable, perhaps unique, in the several formal and informal endorsements his works have received from the popes of the 20th century, including Benedict XV (1914–1922),[75] Pius XI (1922–1939),[76] Pius XII (1939–1958),[77] Paul VI (1963–1978),[78] and John Paul II (1978–2005).[78]
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