The Risen Christ

About the Book

The Early Church saw Paschaltide as the supreme time and considered Holy Week as part of it. St. Leo the Great never preached about the suffering of the Cross without remembering also the joy of the Resurrection. The custom of baptizing at the Easter vigil the catechumens who had been receiving instruction throughout Lent emphasized the fact that this joy flowed from Christ to his Church — dead to sin we were to rise again and to live by the life of him who had conquered death. 

All her life Caryll Houselander meditated and wrote on Our Lord’s passion, as he suffered it in himself and suffers it still in his mystical Body. This book on the Risen Life is a wonderful completion of all her writing. She meditates on the forty days Our Lord spent on earth after the Resurrection, the lessons we can learn from the way he spent them, and the way we should reflect his risen life in our own lives, with the Resurrection as the key to that indestructible joy which is the special mark of all the saints.