Christ Alone Is Enough: A Retreat Guide on St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians

By LC Sthd John Bartunek and Fr. John Bartunek, LC SThD

Every year during the Christmas season, the Church's liturgy brings our attention to St. Paul's Letter to the Christians who lived in Colossae, a city in the Lycus River valley, in modern day Turkey. St Paul wrote his letter from prison, probably in Rome. He had heard that the young Christian community in Colossae was experiencing turbulence. Some teachers there were claiming that Jesus, and the grace Jesus gives, were not sufficient for our salvation. Instead, so these teachers affirmed, we need to add on the mediation of angels and other spiritual forces, as well as various ritual practices that worked almost like magic when combined with special, secret knowledge beyond what Jesus had taught. St. Paul recognized the danger in these kinds of false doctrines. His Letter to the Colossians functions as a kind of inoculation against them, and against the deadly virus of spiritual self-sufficiency that these teachers were spreading. And that's a virus that has reappeared in our own age, morphing from its pre-Christian form into a post-Christian, secular form, but still as dangerous as ever. In this Retreat Guide on St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians, we will have a chance to renew our inoculation by focusing on some important highlights of St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793808678
• ISBN13: 9781793808677
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"