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The Vita Christi, a spiritual classic of the fourteenth century by the Carthusian Ludolph of Saxony, was an early and extremely comprehensive book of meditations on the events recorded in the gospels. A popular and influential book for centuries, it was instrumental in the conversion of Ignatius Loyola, and Teresa of Avila directed that every convent of her reform include "the Carthusian" in its library.
This volume, which consists of excerpts from the full Vita Christi (forthcoming from Cistercian Publications), presents Ludolph's meditations on the resurrection and the appearances of the risen Christ, concluding with Pentecost. Although shelves of books are dedicated to Christ's passion, comparatively little spiritual reading for the Easter Season exists. This book is intended to help fill that lacuna and to introduce readers to this classic text.
Contents
Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction xiii
1. Prologue: Holy Saturday 1
2. Our Lord's Resurrection 10
3. The Myrrh-Bearing Women; Jesus Appears to His Mother 23
4. The Disciples at the Empty Tomb 30
5. Christ Appears to Mary Magdalen 46
6. Christ Appears to the Three Marys 61
7. Christ Appears to Peter, Joseph of Arimathea, James the Less, and the Holy Ancestors 67
8. The Lord Appears to Two Disciples on the Road to Emmaus 73
9. Christ Appears in the Upper Room When Thomas Is Absent 84
10. The Lord Appears Again, with Thomas Present 100
11. The Lord Appears to Seven Disciples by the Sea of Tiberias 109
12. Christ Appears in Galilee to the Eleven Apostles and to Five Hundred Disciples 128
13. Summation of the Resurrection Appearances 138
14. The Ascension 145
15. Pentecost: A Novena 165
Epilogue: The Romance of the Resurrection 188
