Our Way and Our Life

The present volume is a shorter edition of Christ in His Mysteries Dom Columba Marmion's profound reflection on the Mysteries of Christ's birth death Resurrection and Ascension as presented in the Gospels and the Liturgical Year. In Blessed Marmion's words the mysteries that Jesus lived were lived for us. In them He shows Himself as our model and wills to make Himself one with our souls as Head of the Mystical Body of which we are members.<p>Advent Christmas Holy Week Paschaltide the feasts of Corpus Christi and the Sacred Heart--following Christ in this way uniting ourselves to Him we share more deeply in His Divinity and His Divine life. The Sovereign Pontiff Pius X wrote in his encyclical of November 23rd 1903 that the active participation of the faithful in the sacred mysteries and in the public and solemn prayers of the Church is the first and indispensable source of the Christian spirit. There is no surer way no more infallible means of making us one with Christ