The Doctor of Divine Adoption

The Doctor of Divine Adoption | Foreword to Abbot Columba Marmion's Union with God | Fr. David L. Toups, S.T.D.

Editor's note: Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923) was a Benedictine monk who wrote several works that are considered spiritual classics.              
      
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, to an Irish father and a French mother. Given the name Joseph Aloysius, he entered the Dublin diocesan seminary in 1874 and completed his theological studies at the College of the Propagation of the Faith in Rome. He was ordained a priest on June 16, 1881. Several years later he entered the Abbey of Maredsous in Belgium.
      
He would eventually author Christ the Life of the Soul (1917), Christ in His Mysteries (1919), Christ the Ideal of the Monk (1922), and Union With God: Letters of Spiritual Direction by Blessed Columba Marmion (c. 1933, posthumously).
             

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Union With God was first compiled ten years after Abbot Columba Marmion's death in 1923, and then, as now, it brilliantly captures his insights into the spiritual life. This work is a collection of letters of spiritual direction which only can be described as being very simple yet very deep, encouraging childlike confidence in God as our loving Father.

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