The Sacraments in the Christian Life Leen reveals the the crosses and

reveals the the crosses and the joys of that cloistered life

measured study of the assumptions and arguments of religious thought from the nine­teenth and twentieth centuries—concepts and claims still active in the twenty-first century’s project of secularization

Pope Pius VI and the catastrophic French Revolution

simpering imitation of life

The Sacraments in the Christian Life Leen reveals the the crosses andBy M. M. Philipon, O. P. Holiness is imitation of Christ to the point of identification with Christ. Instituted by Christ himself and dispensed by the Church over the centuries, the sacramental order is the ordinary means by which God communicates to the faithful the grace to live, love, suffer, and die in his Son. M. M. Philipon, O. P., treats the seven sacraments in turn and explains their place and power in the Christian life. Baptism supplies the