The Life of our Life

Father Coleridge's magnum opus on the life of Christ—here's what we've published so far.

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Father Coleridge was responsible for 26 volumes on the life of Christ and related matters, and much of our work at The Father Coleridge Reader is based on making this work more widely known.

At the moment, our main way of progressing through his work is basing ourselves on the liturgical year.

Here’s what we’ve republished so far, in the order of the volumes.

The Preparation of the Incarnation

Absolute degradation – the state of the world before Christ

Three elements of false religion: 'good,' human bad, satanic ugly

The Nine Months

Christ Unborn—THE pro-life Advent devotion

Christ Unborn—48 Meditations on Our Lord in the Womb

The Ministry of St John the Baptist

What St John the Baptist's ministry tells us about recent devotions in the Church

'Unless you see signs and wonders, you do not believe' – Healing the Nobleman's Son

How St John the Baptist’s sufferings teach us about Christ’s Kingdom

The Preaching of the Beatitudes

The Sermon on the Mount—the New Law at the New Sinai

The Beatitudes—why Christ says the persecuted and poor are 'blessed'

The Training of the Apostles, Part I

Answering Christ's call: St Matthew, and vocations

How to convert your friends – The feast at St Matthew's house

The Training of the Apostles, Part III

Devil's Seed—Heretics and the parable of the cockle

Why does God tolerate evil and heresy?

The Church and the parable of the leaven

The Church and the parable of the mustard seed

Parables, Exodus and Chastisement

Jairus' Daughter & the Bleeding Woman

Storm on the Lake—Why does Christ chastise his fearful apostles?

The Preaching of the Cross, Part I

Who is the greatest in the Kingdom? Humility and scandal

‘Their Angels see the face of my Father in Heaven’

'The Measure of Forgiveness'—The Unmerciful Servant

Passiontide, Part I

'How camest thou in hither?' The Wedding of the King’s Son

Should we pay taxes?

Jerusalem's Doom—Christ's prophecy of chastisement

Jerusalem's Doom—Signs of its approach

Jerusalem's Doom—Persecution of Christians

Jerusalem's Doom—Prophecy of Chastisement Fulfilled

Doomsday—Faith and Our Lord's promises to Catholics

Doomsday—Christ tells us to hope for it

Doomsday—Pretending it won't happen

The Passage of Our Lord to the Father

'Art thou a king, then?' Pilate & Christ the King

The Prisoners of the King

Our Lady, the Rosary and the Holy Souls – the breviary of the laity

What might Jairus’s Daughter tell us about the pains of Purgatory?

What Christ's cleansing of the temple tells us about Purgatory

The price of delay in relieving the souls in Purgatory

The Return of the King

What are the warnings that the final storm approaches?

How will we know the Church at the end of the world? Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1894

The Mother of the King

The Delight of God: His eternal design for the Blessed Virgin Mary unveiled in prophecy

How the Immaculate Conception reflects Our Lady's sacred role

The life of Our Lady in St Anne's womb - The silence of Scripture

What Our Lady experienced at her Nativity

Mary’s Childhood: From Nazareth to the Presentation in the Temple

The first 'Hail Mary' and Our Lady's reaction

The first proclamation that 'Christ is King'

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