{"id":24972,"date":"2009-10-03T05:15:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T09:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/blessed-columba-marmion-1\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T05:15:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T09:15:35","slug":"blessed-columba-marmion-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/blessed-columba-marmion-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Columba Marmion"},"content":{"rendered":"


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God, our Father, you called your servant, Columba, to the
\nmonastic life. You bestowed on him the grace to understand the mysteries of
\nyour Son and to make him known as the ideal for all who have been baptized.
\nGrant that we may learn from his example to live in Christ by opening our
\nhearts in joy to the Spirit of your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with
\nyou and the Holy Spirit, One God, for ever and ever. Amen.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The Church observes
\nthe feast of Blessed Columba Marmion<\/a> today. He was an Irishman who became a monk in Belgium,
\na diocesan priest who fell in love with the Benedictine way life, its emphasis on seeking God and who served as abbot. Dom Columba died on January
\n30, 1923. Marmion’s liturgical memorial, however, is observed not on his anniversary
\nof death but on the anniversary of receiving the abbatial blessing, October 3,
\n1909. At that time the first Sunday of October was the Solemnity of the Most Holy Rosary
\nof the Blessed Virgin Mary; in this era the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary is
\nobserved on October 7th.<\/p>\n

Two pieces to reflect up on…<\/b><\/p>\n

The
\nwhole of the Christian life consists in carrying Christ to birth within us and
\nin having Him live there’. This, of course is nothing more than a paraphrase of St. Paul’s
\ninjunction in Gal. 4:19: ‘until Christ is formed in you’. For Marmion this is not just our
\nfinal goal, it is our daily, essential task:  <\/span>to form Christ within us, through the Graces of the
\nsacraments and our daily encounter with God in prayer. (Mark Tierney O.S.B,
\n“The Life and Times of Columba Marmion”)<\/p>\n

And<\/b><\/p>\n

… Revelation teaches us that there is
\nan ineffable paternity in God. God is a Father<\/b>: that is the fundamental dogma
\nwhich all the others suppose, a magnificent dogma which leaves the reason
\nconfounded, but ravishes faith with delight and transports holy souls. God is a
\nFather. Eternally, long before the created light rose upon the world, God
\nbegets a Son to whom He communicates His nature<\/b>, His perfections, His beatitude
\nHis life, to beget is to communicate [By the gift of a similar nature ] being
\nand life. You are My Son this day have I begotten You [Ps 2:7; Heb 1:5; 5:5],
\nfrom the womb before the day – star, I begot you [Ps 110:3]. In God, then, is
\nlife, life communicated by the Father … Creatures can only lisp when they
\nspeak of such mysteries… the Father, and the Son, with one same and indivisible
\nDivine Nature, and both, although distinct from one another [on account of
\ntheir personal properties, ‘of being Father’ and ‘of being Son’] are united in
\na powerful, substantial embrace of love, whence proceeds that Third Person, Whom
\nRevelation calls by a mysterious name: the Holy Ghost<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Such is as far as faith
\ncan know it, the secret of the inmost life of God; the fullness and the
\nfruitfulness of this life are the source of the incommensurable bliss that the
\nineffable Society of the three Divine Persons possesses.<\/p>\n

And now God – not in
\norder to add to His plenitude, but by it to enrich other beings – exceeds, as
\nit were, His Paternity. God decrees to call creatures to share this Divine
\nlife<\/b>, so transcendent that God alone has the right to live it, this eternal
\nlife communicated by the Father to the Only Son, and by them, to the Holy
\nSpirit … To these mere creatures God will give the condition and sweet name
\nof children<\/span>. By nature, God has only one Son; by love<\/b>, He wills to have an innumerable
\nmultitude: that is the grace of supernatural Adoption<\/b><\/span>. (Dom Columba Marmion,
\nOSB, Spiritual Writings<\/i>.  <\/span>Ed. P.
\nLethiellex. Maredesous Abbey, 1998.)<\/p>\n

A very brief note on the canonization
\nprocess of Dom Columba can be read here<\/a>. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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