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    Tree of Life: Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story
    Tree of Life: Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story
    Tree of Life: Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story
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    Tree of Life: Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story

    By Stephen Joseph Wolf

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    Tree of Life: Incarnation, Passion & Glory, Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story. This is Saint Bonaventure's 13th Century collection of fifty meditations on the Incarnation, Passion, and Glory of Jesus Christ. Following the 1978 translation by Dr. Ewert Cousins, parish priest and spiritual director Stephen Joseph Wolf offers a paraphrase with brush-ink drawings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Joseph Wolf
    Release dateJul 9, 2013
    ISBN9781937081157
    Tree of Life: Saint Bonaventure on the Christ Story
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    Stephen Joseph Wolf

    Stephen Joseph Wolf is a parish priest, spiritual director and retreat leader in the Diocese of Nashville, where he grew up the second of eight sons of a parish secretary and Nashville’s best television repairman, and has worked as a paper boy, janitor, laundry worker, desk clerk, landscaper, accountant and priest. He writes for faith sharing groups and retreats and spiritual direction on weekly “monk days” of silence and solitude.

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      Tree of Life - Stephen Joseph Wolf

      Tree of Life

      Incarnation, Passion & Glory

      Saint Bonaventure

      on the Christ Story

      edited by

      Stephen Joseph Wolf

      Tree of Life

      Incarnation, Passion & Glory

      Saint Bonaventure

      on the Christ Story

      Published by idjc press

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Stephen Joseph Wolf

      Discover other titles by Stephen Joseph Wolf

      at www.idjc.org

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this editor.

      Songs previously appeared in Hinge Hour Singer.

      Ink and brush images are by Stephen Joseph Wolf

      Ebook Edition isbn 978-1-937081-15-7

      Print Edition isbn 978-1-937081-05-8

      Table of Contents

      How To Use Tree of Life

      Mystery of the Incarnation

      Week One

      1st Fruit: His Distinguished Origin

      Begotten of God

      Prefigured

      Sent from Heaven

      Born of Mary

      2nd Fruit: The Humility of his Way of Life

      Conformed to his Ancestors

      Shown to the Magi

      Submissive to the Law

      Exiled from his Kingdom

      Week Two

      3rd Fruit: The Loft of his Power

      Heavenly Baptist

      Tempted by the Enemy

      Wonderful in his Miracles

      Transfigured

      4th Fruit: The Plenitude of his Piety

      The Solicitous Shepherd

      Bathed with Tears

      Acclaimed King of the World

      Consecrated Bread

      Mystery of His Passion

      Week Three

      5th Fruit: His Confidence in Trials

      Sold through Guile

      Prostrate in Prayer

      Surrounded by the Mob

      Bound with Chains

      6th Fruit: His Patience in Bad Treatment

      Denied by his Own

      Blindfolded

      Handed Over to Pilate

      Condemned to Death

      Week Four

      7th Fruit: His Constancy Under Torture

      Scorned by All

      Nailed to the Cross

      Linked with Thieves

      Given Gall to Drink

      8th Fruit: Victory in the Conflict of Death

      Sun Dimmed in Death

      Pierced with a Lance

      Dressed in Blood

      Laid in the Tomb

      Mystery of His Glory

      Week Five

      9th Fruit: The Novelty of his Resurrection

      Triumphant in Death

      Rising in Blessedness

      Extraordinary Beauty

      Dominion over the Earth

      10th Fruit: The Sublimity of his Ascension

      Leader of his Army

      Lifted Up to Heaven

      Giver of the Spirit

      Freeing from Guilt

      Week Six

      11th Fruit: The Equity of his Judgment

      Truthful Witness

      Wrathful Judge

      Glorious Conqueror

      Adorned Spouse

      12th Fruit: The Eternity of his Kingdom

      King, Son of the King

      Inscribed Book

      Fountain-Ray of Light

      Desired End

      Prayer to the Holy Spirit

      Sources

      Saint Bonaventure

      Stephen Joseph Wolf

      How to Use Tree of Life

      These fifty meditation renderings have two kinds of users in mind.

      1st - an Individual Seeker

      reflecting on the mystery and person of Jesus Christ:

      Take the time to go slowly, and keep it simple.

      Wherever you find yourself drawn, linger for pondering, perhaps breathing with a particular word or phrase.

      Consider one meditation each day for fifty days, ignoring the six weekly beginnings. Begin anytime or appropriately on:

      December 21 (puts the Nativity on December 25),

      or the Second Sunday of Lent (puts Easter on Easter Sunday),

      or August 16 (puts the Crucifixion on September 14)

      2nd – a Faith Sharing Group

      perhaps meeting over six weeks:

      Use what is helpful and ignore the rest; keep it simple.

      If someone in the group knows the song, you have a song leader. If one person leads the rest can follow, because the tunes are simple and from the Church tradition.

      Group members can take turns being the Leader week to week,

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