With Christ: The Gospel Under the Guidance of Saint BenedictLiturgical Press, 2005 - 73 pages While spending almost a year in retreat at the Abbey of Tamie, Jean-Franois Baudoz, a biblical scholar, was inspired to write this spiritual journey. Far from presenting a collection of "pious pieces of advice," this journey proposes to restore our inner unity, by focusing on the figure of Christ, the very core of our growth in faith and yet often remote from our concerns. With Christ draws from three sources: daily life with its joys, its rifts, and its times of transition; the Rule of Saint Benedict, centered on the hearing and welcoming of God's Word; and finally the Gospel and the words of Jesus. Could it be that the man from Nazareth, followed step by step, from the desert to Jerusalem, from the parables to the silence of the cross, is the one to open for us an authentic inner truth? |
Contents
Temptations | 5 |
Identity and Otherness | 15 |
End Times Incarnation and Present Time | 26 |
Vigils and Waiting | 34 |
Broken Bread | 41 |
Passion | 47 |
Signs and Humility | 53 |
Conversion | 62 |
Common terms and phrases
abbot Aelred of Rievaulx answer become beginning believe Bernard of Clairvaux bread brothers called Cerf chapter Christ Christian Church ciples cise Cistercian Collegeville comes contemplate conversion cross death desert disciple of Christ disciples disfigured Jesus Elijah eternity Eucharist everything Exod faith Father feet follow frère gift given goal God's heard heart heaven Holy Spirit human humility identity John Cassian John's Gospel Joseph's kingdom La ruche lectio lectio divina live Lord Luke Mark Mark's Gospel Matt Matthew means Messiah moine de Tibhirine monastery monastic monastic profession monks mystery neighbor one's ourselves parable passage passion person Peter prayer precar precisely present proclaim question recognize remember reminds resurrection Rule Saint Benedict scopos Scripture Sign of Jonas someone speak suffering superiors Tamié temptation things Thomas Merton tion tower of Siloam true understand waiting wash William of Saint-Thierry word
Popular passages
Page viii - I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.