Thomas à Kempis Part 1: Historical Background
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- TAN Publisher Conor Gallagher and Fr. Robert Nixon discuss Thomas à Kempis, the humble author of the second-bestselling book of all time, The Imitation of Christ. Discover how we know his name today, despite his wish to remain anonymous, and why this amazing man is not known as Saint Thomas à Kempis.
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I’ve been reading again (after many years) the Imitation of Christ, and have gleaned many new things from it!
Great history...thank you.
I read a chapter from my Imitation of Christ almost every day with my morning coffee. Great way to start the day!
That's a great holy habit! I'm going to take up that challenge as well. God bless!
And so wìll I!
I am a Protestant who has spent the last year or so, on and off, learning Catholic doctrines. I have been reading "The Imitation of Christ" and underlining and devouring its content. Both have been a real blessing to me. Not sure when or if I will ever make the jump to Catholicism, but I have a greater understanding of Catholicism than ever before and have shed most of my long held prejudices and misunderstandings
You might check out Fr Mike Schmitz "Bible in a Year" commentary.....
I too am not a Catholic, but I appreciate their devotion to historical doctrine and practices!
The dexterity with which Thomas à Kempis cited biblical vèrses was astounding, considering that there was no Google in his days. Today, if I'm not sure of the location of a particular scripture passage, I would quickly type the key words into the Google search box, and voila! I'm good to go. So, this man must be a master of scripture. I read him back in my younger days as a teenager, and I confess he was a key influence on my vocation discernment for priesthood at the time. I'm so proud to be associated with such a spiritual giant as à Kempis.
I just started this book a short time ago. I was curious about Thoms a Kempis. And even though I do not follow catholicism, I am a born- again Christian, found this very interesting. Thank you.
Great biography. Thanks for sharing. Best way to follow Ven. Kempis' work would be to read a chapter every day for one week before we move on to the next. There's so much to follow in one single chapter. Some chapters are even deeper that we can ponder for weeks. Rather than aiming to finish the book, we can make each chapter out daily living kind of practice. I'm sure, we can become saints if we simply follow Imitation of the Christ (master piece). Ave Maria!
Thank you for this discussion. Now I know more about Thomas Kempis. So very interesting. I absolutely love reading The Imitation of Christ. Second time now. I’m currently sharing passages each day on my Facebook page. I’m on book 4 Chapter 10. God bless!!
Great work! keep it up your good works.
I’ve heard this story of the great man’s body moving in the coffin and that the church suspects premature burial. But in some actual circumstances bodies will and can move in caskets, due to gastric breakdown and other natural functions of the body decomposing. Now that we have funeral homes injecting all kinds of chemicals into a body and draining fluids, we don’t really have much case of it happening these day. Catholics should start to pray to this great man , I bet the miracles would roll in, proving he’s in heaven.
It would be nice to have the sign of the Cross before and after a prayer as I wondered at first whether Father was a Protestant since pastors of some Protestant denominations wear the white collar as well.Thank you for these talks and books. Just wonderful!
Same here. I wasn’t sure and had to double check the description of this video. 😊
Love the prayer said by the Father However found strange that neither of you gentlemen did the sign of the Cross as we catholic do it in the begin of each prayer or at the end of each prayer or blessings..... But yes i love the Imitation of Christ great book to have it at your bedside, certainly great teaching moments on such a small book....Thank you for the great story, God Bless...
I thought the same exact thing.
God still heard them 😉,
Not every prayer needs the sign of the cross
They must have done it off camera
I really appreciate this! Thank you for posting! I love to hear what the speaker has to say. Thank you for just letting him talk.
23:11, that’s a humorous thought! Hahahahahaha!
22:25, one of the legends why Thomas a Kempis was not canonized by the Catholic Church.
39:26, what Thomas a Kempis offers the modern reader.
The imitation of christ is my 3d most important book after the bible and the Cathecism . Then Glories of Mary by St Alphonse Liquori . My Catholic life are those four books
Add Mystical City of God to your list.
What do you think Orthodox Christianity?As a orthodox christian I start to read Thomas,In our country, this book does not relate to what is offered for reading to Christians, while in our country we read more either ancient Saints such as Isaac the Syrian, Ephraim the Syrian, John Chrysostom, John the Ladder, Basil the Great and many others, from the Middle Ages Gregory Palamas, Simeon of Thessalonica, or Russian Saints Fathers of 17-19 centuries such as Theophan the Recluse and Ignatius Bryanchaninov, Tikhon Zadonsky.As a reader ,I was interested why this book is so popular in West Christianity.Just read something about Thomas and about background very interesting and what German Mystics such as Genry Suzo influenced him,as a fact I still think Suzo was in a kind of delusional state because in his life he had vision of angels danced with him for me is very strange.Its definitely was a delusion.But as I am reading Thomas á Kempis just for educational purpose,I found some interesting thoughts ,but there is no such a spirit,as in Bible or early Fathers of the Church,even in Grigoriy Palama's works there is a lot of such a spirit,even in our late Saints such as Igantius,there is no same spirit in this book.
32:10, The Elevation of the Mind to God.
Please, let your guest speak.
In fairness, his guest does speak at length. I think it is more of a conversation though....
26:03, what does the life of Thomas a Kempis teach us.
Canons ... interesting 🤔
10:50, Kempis copied the Bible many times during his lifetime.