The Passion from Within
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
The mystic Adrienne von Speyr, drawing on her very special God-given charism of being able to experience the interior states of persons, shares her profound insights on the suffering, loneliness and loss Christ endured for love of us during His Passion. These unique experiences and insights of von Speyr on Christ’s redemptive sufferings, and the people and events surrounding Him, offer rich and moving material for meditation and adoration. She also presents rare and beautiful mediations on Christ’s mysterious presence in the Eucharist, as well as a kind of theology of the body, echoing John Paul II’s emphasis on the dignity and importance of the human body in our relationship to God.
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- Shares profound insights on Christ’s suffering, loneliness, and loss during His Passion
- Presents rare and beautiful meditations on Christ’s mysterious presence in the Eucharist
- Offers a kind of theology of the body
- Foreword
- Going Forth into the Passion
- Estrangement
- The Lord and His Disciples before the Passion
- During the Institution of the Eucharist
- Eucharist and Anguish
- The Eucharistic Experience of the Lord
- Eucharist as Admission into the Lord’s Intimacy
- Body on the Cross and in the Eucharist: Begetting and Birth
- The Disciples’ Thoughts on the Way to the Mount of Olives
- The Disciples’ Failure on the Mount of Olives
- “My Will”, “Your Will”
- The Lord Is Distraught
- The Three Prayers on the Mount of Olives
- The Kiss of Judas
- The Lord Receives the Kiss
- Judas’ Communion
- Judas and Apostasy
- The Role of Money in the Passion
- Taking the Church Back into Himself
- The Flight of the Disciples
- At the Trial
- Peter’s Denial
- The Lord and Peter’s Denial
- The Church in the Lord during the Passion
- Passion and Fruitfulness
- Handed Over
- Judas’ Repentance
- King of the Jews
- Pilate
- Pilate’s Wife
- Barabbas
- The People’s Call and the Call of God
- Simon of Cyrene
- Cross and Confession
- On the Cross
- Wood of the Cross
- The Body on Holy Saturday
Here is a profoundly riveting account of the Lord’s Passion, written not from the reportorial perspective of one standing outside the Event, but seen and felt from within that terrifying abyss of loneliness and loss Christ entered for the world’s salvation. Adrienne von Speyr possesses so lively an awareness of the ‘always more’ aspect of Christ’s merciful love that one is frequently reminded of St. Therese of Lisieux. The chapters on Christ’s Eucharistic surrender are absolutely stunning, a tapestry of inspired mystic color, deeply consoling in its effects.
—Regis Martin, S.T.D., Author, The Last Things
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