{"id":3375,"date":"2014-10-03T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/10\/memorial-of-blessed-columba-marmion-osb\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T07:54:24","slug":"memorial-of-blessed-columba-marmion-osb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/memorial-of-blessed-columba-marmion-osb\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/PIC%20Bl%20Marmion-1.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/PIC Bl Marmion-1-thumb-300x301.jpg\" alt=\"PIC Bl Marmion-1.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/span><em>Would you have recognized him? This is none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignatiusinsight.com\/features2006\/czehnder_bmarmion_sept06.asp\">Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion<\/a>, O.S.B. He was obliged to travel in disguise during World War I while searching for a refuge in Ireland for the monks of his abbey of Maredsous in Belgium.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I owe more to Columba Marmion for initiating me into things spiritual<br \/>\nthan to any other spiritual writer.&#8221;<br \/>\nPope John Paul II<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Abbot Columba Marmion, O.S.B. was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 3, 2000. His liturgical memorial was fixed on October 3rd, the anniversary of his Abbatial Blessing in 1909. Blessed Abbot Marmion is best known for his trilogy: <em>Christ, the Life of the Soul<\/em>, <em>Christ, the Ideal of the Monk<\/em>, and <em>Christ in His Mysteries<\/em>. A fourth volume, <em>Christ, the Ideal of the Priest <\/em>was published posthumously in 1952.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official Collect <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deus, Pater omnipotens,<br \/>\nqui ad monasticam conversationem,<br \/>\nbeatum Columbam Abbatem, vocasti,<br \/>\neique arcana mysteriorum Christi pandere voluisti,<br \/>\nconcede propitius ut, eius intercessione,<br \/>\nadoptionis filiorum spiritu roborati,<br \/>\nSapientiae tuae dignam fieri habitaculum mereamur.<br \/>\nPer Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum, Filium tuum,<br \/>\nqui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti,<br \/>\nDeus, per omnia saecula saeculorum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O God, Almighty Father,<br \/>\nwho didst call the blessed abbot Columba to the monastic way of life<br \/>\nand open unto him the secrets of the mysteries of Christ,<br \/>\nmercifully grant that,<br \/>\nstrengthened by his intercession,<br \/>\nin the spirit of our adoption as sons,<br \/>\nwe may become a dwelling place worthy of thy Wisdom.<br \/>\nThrough the same our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son,<br \/>\nwho with Thee livest and reignest<br \/>\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit,<br \/>\none God forever and ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you have recognized him? This is none other than Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion, O.S.B. He was obliged to travel in disguise during World War I while searching for a refuge in Ireland for the monks of his abbey of Maredsous in Belgium. &#8220;I owe more to Columba Marmion for initiating me into things spiritual <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-texts","category-monastic","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Sr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}