The Grace of Nothingness

<p>In the early twentieth century Blessed Columba Marmion's dogmatically-grounded spiritual theology expressed in artful prose set the Catholic world on fire. A century later in <em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Grace of </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nothingness</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Fr </span>Cassian Koenemann seeks to rekindle that fire for a new generation with his inspired presentation of Marmion's key spiritual insights. To this task he brings a monk's sensitivity to friendship with God a schoolteacher's focus on the fruits of theology and a spiritual theologian's attentiveness to grounding it all in proven sources.<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Marmion reminds us that God heals and perfects us to the extent we allow him to do so but that we often block that transformation through prideful self-reliance trying to solve our problems by our own efforts. If only we place our confidence in God however we will receive the grace we need. </span></p>