Excerpted from Christ the Life of the Soul, Dom Marmion.

 Lent: March 13th  

 Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

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Confidence and Union with God in Temptation
Nothing is more efficacious against temptation than the remembrance of the Cross of Jesus. What did Christ come to do here below if not to "destroy the works of the devil"? And how has He destroyed them, how has He "cast out" the devil, as He Himself says, if not by His death upon the Cross?

Let us then lean by faith upon the cross of Christ Jesus, as our baptism gives us the right to do. The virtue of the cross is not exhausted. In baptism we were marked with the seal of the cross, we became members of Christ, enlightened by His light, and partakers of His life and of the salvation He brings to us. Hence, united to Him, whom shall we fear? Dominus illuminatio mea et salus mea; quern timebo? Let us say to ourselves: "He hath given His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways."

"Because he hoped in Me (says the Lord) I will deliver him; I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him. I will fill him with length of days, and I will show him My salvation."

Excerpted from Christ the Life of the Soul, Dom Marmion.

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English translations currently in print

• Christ, the Life of the Soul. A new translation by Alan Bancroft. Introduction by Dom Mark Tierney, O.S.B. (European Vice-Postulator of Marmion's Beatification Cause); Foreword by Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R. Published by Zaccheus Press (Bethesda, Md., 2005) (ISBN 978-0-9725981-5-6) in North America, and by Gracewing (Leominster, UK, 2005) (ISBN 978-0-85244-656-0) outside North America.

• Christ in His Mysteries. A new translation by Alan Bancroft. Introduction by Aidan Nichols, O.P.; Foreword by Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R. Published by Zaccheus Press (Bethesda, Md., 2008) (ISBN 978-0-9725981-9-4) in North America, and by Gracewing (Leominster, UK, Feb. 2010) (ISBN 978-0-85244-735-2) outside North America. Both publishers' editions are available in Australasia.

• Christ the Ideal of the Monk. Reprint of the Mother Mary St. Thomas translation. Published by Roman Catholic Books (Ridgefield, Conn., circa 2005) (ISBN 0-9742098-1-3).

• Christ the Ideal of the Priest. Reprint of the Dom Matthew Dillon translation, with adaptations made by Rev. David L. Toups, S.T.D. Published by Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2005) (ISBN 978-1-58617-014-1) in North America, and by Gracewing (Leominster, UK, 2006) (ISBN 978-0-85244-657-7) in the United Kingdom.

• Union with God: Letters of Spiritual Direction by Blessed Columba Marmion. Reprint of the Mother Mary St. Thomas translation, with an Introduction by Rev. David L. Toups, S.T.D. Published by Zaccheus Press (Bethesda, Md., 2006) (ISBN 978-0-9725981-6-3).

• Columba Marmion: Correspondance 1881–1923. Edited by Mark Tierney, R.-Ferdinand Poswick, and Nicolas Dayez. (Paris: François-Xavier de Guibert. 2008).

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_Marmion

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Stational Church

The Station today is at St. Paul without-the-walls. On this day the catechumens were subjected to a new examination and, if approved, were registered for Baptism. The beginning of the four Gospels was read to them, and the Creed and the Our Father was "given," or explained to them. Today's Mass has a decided Baptismal character. The joys of this day were anticipated on Laetare Sunday.