New Creature

The "new creature" : nova creatura, who is the child of adoption in Christ Jesus, reproduces in God's sight the traits of His beloved Son.  God's great desire is that we should resemble His Son Jesus as perfectly as possible.  Therefore the whole method of the spiritual art consists in keeping the eyes of the soul unceasingly fixed upon Christ our Model, this humano-divine Ideal, in order to reproduce His features in us.  It is thus that we shall rehabilitate our nature and raise it to it's first splendour; and it is thus we may be assured of the delight and liberality of the Heavenly Father, because then He will recognize in us the many brethren of the First-born: Ut sit ipse primogenitus in multis fratribus. - Dom Columba Marmion, O.S.B.

(photos: Christ the King fresco in the apse of Saint Anthony's church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)