{"id":31546,"date":"2014-10-03T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31546"},"modified":"2016-09-04T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T11:26:58","slug":"blessed-columba-marmion-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/blessed-columba-marmion-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Columba Marmion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412201562099_5211\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Colomba-Marmion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31547 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Colomba-Marmion-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Colomba Marmion\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Colomba-Marmion-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Colomba-Marmion.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>If you ask monks and priests of an older generation about today&#8217;s Blessed, you will likely hear that he was a\u00a0spiritual master and a man faithful to his vocation and the venerable theological teaching of the Church. You will hear people say that\u00a0&#8220;Marmion is still alive and well and doing great things for people.&#8221; And in a certain real sense he is very alive with a new mission given to him by the Trinity. I &#8220;met&#8221; Dom Columba through friendship with a monk and also at the Illinois monastery named to honor him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Catholic.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/saints\/saint.php?saint_id=7128#wiki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dom Columba<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was abbot of\u00a0<strong><a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412201562099_5216\" title=\"website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maredsous.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maredsous Abbey<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Belgium. Ordained as a diocesan priest of Dublin, he entered the monastic life when he was 30, and by 28 September\u00a01909 his brother monks elected him their abbot&#8211;a monastery of more than a 100 monks at the time; he served in that capacity until his death on January 30, 1923.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columba_Marmion\">Marmion<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0authored three books based upon his extensive retreats. These works give a deep insight into his spirituality:\u00a0<cite>Christ, the Life of the Soul<\/cite>\u00a0(1917),\u00a0<cite id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412201562099_5217\">Christ in His Mysteries<\/cite>\u00a0(1919), and\u00a0<cite id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412201562099_5212\">Christ the Ideal of the Monk<\/cite>\u00a0(1922). His is a spirituality centered on Christ and our divine adoption as children of God. Translations of these works exist in many languages, and many consider them to be spiritual classics.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412201562099_5218\">Saint\u00a0John Paul II beatified Abbot Columba as a Blessed of the Church on September 3, 2000, and considered him pivotal in his formation. In fact, among the few personal books in his papal library one found the works of Marmion. It was the\u00a0Holy Father who told\u00a0one of his aides: \u201cI owe more to Columba Marmion for initiating me into things spiritual than to any other spiritual writer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Franciscan Father\u00a0Groeschel notes that &#8220;Abbot Marmion in some ways was the beginning of a movement that became known, under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, as the &#8216;New Evangelization.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I would like to remember in prayer my monk-friends at\u00a0<strong><a title=\"website\" href=\"http:\/\/marmion.org\/s\/1356\/abbey\/start.aspx?sid=1356&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marmion Abbey<\/a><\/strong>, Aurora, Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask monks and priests of an older generation about today&#8217;s Blessed, you will likely hear that he was a\u00a0spiritual master and a man faithful to his vocation and the venerable theological teaching of the Church. You will hear people say that\u00a0&#8220;Marmion is still alive and well and doing great things for people.&#8221; And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/blessed-columba-marmion-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Columba Marmion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1727,2037],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31573,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31546\/revisions\/31573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}