The Life Hidden with Jesus in God

By Henri-Marie Boudon | Edited by Andrew L. Ouellette and Rev. Gillespie Echoing Saint Paul, Henri-Marie Boudon writes: “Happy they whose life is hidden with Christ in God that they may appear with Him when He manifests His glory.” The Christian life is steeped in this mystery of hiddenness: its model, Jesus Christ himself, is hidden in God. It is with this “double hiddenness,” Rev. Hugh Gillespie, S.M.M., explains in his Introduction, “the hiddenness of our very selves within the great hiddenness of Christ” that Boudon is concerned. Your life is hidden with Christ in God. (Col. 3:3) Thematically united to another of Boudon’s works, The Holy Ways of the Cross, The Life Hidden with Jesus in God contends primarily with the prerequisite task of Christian discipleship: to deny oneself. Only after the act of self-denial can the primary work of that discipleship begin: to follow Christ and receive life in abundance from him. Deftly edited and insightfully introduced by Andrew L. Ouellette