| Title:
The Five Wounds of Jesus and Personal Transformation
Author: Joseph A. Grassi
To Order call: 1 800-343-ALBA (2522) Please have your Master, Visa or American Express card ready To order online click here. |
 |
As an expression of the depth of God's love for each and every human being, the five wounds of Christ have inspired heroic deeds on the part of otherwise very ordinary persons. No one can meditate on the unspeakable suffering those five wounds represent without being emotionally moved and in some way transformed for the better. Inflicted out of misguided hatred for Goodness personified, they have become resplendent instruments for healing and forgiveness. Beginning with the Gospels and the letters of St. Paul, the author goes on to show how the liturgy enables us to relive the mysteries involved. From the lives of men and women who, like Mary, have been transformed by their dovotion to the five wounds of Jesus, he has drawn examples for our own lives. Finally, he presents a portrait of three saints who bore in their own flesh the same five wounds that even physically made them so like the Lord: Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena and Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. |
|
Joseph A. Grassi teaches New Testament and Christian Origins as a
professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, California. Apart
from a popular audio tape series he did for Alba House, he has published fourteen books (the latest
being Rediscovering the Jesus Story [Paulist Press, 1996]), and countless articles for
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Bible Today, New Testament Studies, Worship and St.
Anthony Messenger among others.