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"Life of Christ is a capacious, complex, sprawling text. But at the same time, it possesses an extraordinary thematic unity. With St. Paul, Fulton Sheen says, on every page, “I preach one thing: Christ and him crucified."
- Bishop Barron
Contents
Foreword VII
By Bishop Barron
Introduction XI
Father Andrew Apostol, C.F.R.
Preface XVII
Chapter I
The Only Person Ever Pre-announced
Chapter 2
Early Life of Christ
Chapter 3
The Three Short Cuts from the Cross
Chapter 4
The Lamb of God
Chapter 5
The Beginning of "The Hour"
Chapter 6
The Temple of His Body
Chapter 7
Nicodemus, the Serpent and the Cross
Chapter 8
Savior of the World
Chapter 9
The First Public Announcement of His Death
Chapter 10
The Choosing of the Twelve
Chapter 11
Beatitudes
Chapter 12
The Intruder Who Was a Woman
Chapter 13
The Man Who Lost his Head
Chapter 14
The Bread of Life
Chapter 15
The Refusal to Be a Bread King
Chapter 16
Purity and Property
Chapter 17
Our Lord's Testimony Concerning Himself
Chapter 18
Transfiguration
Chapter 19
The Three Quarrelings
Chapter 20
The Attempted Arrest at the Feast of Tabernacles
Chapter 21
Only the Innocent May Condemn
Chapter 22
The Good Shepherd
Chapter 23
The Son of Man
Chapter 24
Caesar or God
Chapter 25
His Hour Had Not Yet Come
Chapter 26
The Mightiest Arrow in the Divine Quiver
Chapter 27
More than a Teacher
Chapter 28
The Pagans and the Cross
Chapter 29
The Growing Opposition
Chapter 30
The Fox and the Hen
Chapter 31
The Resurrection That Prepared His Death
Chapter 32
The Woman Who Dimly Foresaw His Death
Chapter 33
Entrance into Jerusalem
Chapter 34
The Visit of the Greeks
Chapter 35
The King's Son Marked for Death
Chapter 36
The Last Supper
Chapter 37
The Servant of the Servants
Chapter 38
Judas
Chapter 39
The Divine Lover's Farewell
Chapter 40
Our Lord's "My Father"
Chapter 41
The Agony in the Garden
Chapter 42
The Kiss That Blistered
Chapter 43
The Religious Trial
Chapter 44
The Denials of Peter
Chapter 45
Trial Before Pilate
Chapter 46
At the Bottom of the List
Chapter 47
Second Trial Before Pilate
Chapter 48
The Crucifixion
Chapter 49
The Seven Words from the Cross
Chapter 50
Seven Words to the Cross
Chapter 51
The Rending of the Veil of the Temple
Chapter 52
The Piercing of the Side
Chapter 53
The Night Friends of Christ
Chapter 54
The Earth's Most Serious Wound-The Empty Tomb
Chapter 55
The Doors Being Closed
Chapter 56
Fingers, Hands, and Nails
Chapter 57
Love as the Condition of Authority
Chapter 58
The Divine Mandate
Chapter 59
Last Appearance in Jerusalem
Chapter 60
Repentance
Chapter 61
The Ascension
Chapter 62
Christ Takes on a New Body