The Spiritual Life, Episode 3: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

The Spiritual Life, Episode 3: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ For this the third Episode of The Spiritual Life, we will take a break from commenting directly on Father Leen’s book The Holy Ghost and His Work in Souls. Instead, since we are in the holy season of Lent, we will discuss the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ in relation to our own spiritual life. Again, we will use Father Leen’s works on this topic as our guide and inspiration since he has dealt with this topic so profoundly. As Father Leen brings out, the Catholic understanding of the Cross is this: the Cross is really Christ’s theory of life, His philosophy of life, His way of life, His way to Heaven, and unless we understand it in that way, our devotion to the Passion of Christ is not as it should be. It is the symbol of the Christian way of living. The Cross is the secret, the door, that allows us to take part in the divine life of grace that His passion and death merited for us. In short, the cross does not end with Christ. We must, through the carrying of our own cross in union with Our Lord’s, enter into our Lord’s passion in order to benefit by it. Sacrifice is the essential condition for attaining the salvation which Christ our Savior won for us. There is no salvation that does not cost us something. The Cross of the Divine Master does not dispense us from carrying our cross in His footsteps. Sacrifice is not only for the Savior, but also for those who desire to be saved. The Cross is not only for Christ, but for every Christian. Ultimately, this truth leads us to the great mystery of the Mystical Body of Christ – the sacrifice of the Head is complete, but the Whole Mystical Christ – Head and Body – must take part in the passion, therefore the Mystical Body must have its part as well. Join Father Bernard Uttley, O.S.B., and our host Nicholas Wansbutter, as they discuss the Cross of Christ and its relation to the spiritual life of our soul. Original Air Date: March 16, 2014 Show Run Time: 2 hours 01 minutes Show Guest(s): Father Bernard Uttley, O.S.B. Show Host(s): Nicholas Wansbutter