In 2002, St. Pope John Paul II added the Luminous Mysteries to the rosary, writing that ?the whole mystery of Christ is a mystery of light. He is the ?light of the world (Jn. 8:12). ILLUME is a contemplative reflection upon the Luminous Mysteries in the life of Jesus, written in a lectio divina key, inviting us to enter into the Uncreated Light of the Most Holy Trinity.

Mary is known in tradition as the Mystical Rose, and praying her rosary is meant to be a mystical encounter with the Most Holy Trinity. Mary is the daughter of the Father, mother of the Son, and spouse of the Holy Spirit. GAUDETE is a scriptural rosary written in a lectio divina key, inviting us to contemplate the Trinitarian dimensions of the Mysteries of Joy. About the Author: Philip Krill is a priest in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO.

DEIFIED VISION: TOWARDS AN ANAGOGICAL CATHOLICISM is an attempt at activating an "anagogical imagination." It requires of us that we pray for a share in God's own contemplation of the world; that we allow our imaginations to get "lifted up" into His own; that we desire to receive, through the illumination of His Holy Spirit, a participation in His own love and desire for all He has created. One author has called this process 'acquiring an "epistemic participation" in the Mind of Christ.'

MORE THAN Conquerors is a contemplative meditation on the 8th chapter of St. Paul's Letter to the Romans. Modeled on the lectio divina style of Adrienne von Speyr and Erasmo Leiva-Merikakas, this book explores the mystical depths of St. Paul's most famous letter, inviting us to reflect on the deifying power of 'life in Christ.' St. Paul was the first and perhaps greatest Christian mystic. The complexities of his letters to the Romans bear witness to the unfathomable riches of the Mystery of Christ. These reflections seek to bring us into the heart of Pauline mysticism.

THE HOPE OF GLORY is a contemplative reading of St. Paul's first chapter to his letter to the Colossians. Written in the lectio divina key and after the fashion of the works of Adrienne von Speyr and Erasmo Leiva-Merikakas, THE HOPE OF GLORY seeks the mystical meaning of the text. It represents a small contribution to the neo-patristic synthesis and participative exegesis emerging in the contemporary church.

Inspired by the ressourcement theology of Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Pope Benedict XVI, LIFE IN THE TRINITY is a modest attempt to advance a neo-patristic synthesis crucial to the renewal of the Catholic Faith in our times. Drawing on the early Church Fathers, as well as the personalism of Pope John Paul II, LIFE IN THE TRINITY presents Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as the source, goal, and archetype of human love, and the wellspring of liturgical worship. It furnishes us with a Catholic vision of communion and deification, inspiring hope for the 21st century.

Inspired by the spiritual exegesis of the early church fathers, and modeled on the revival of an imaginative and contemplative approach to Scripture developed by Adrienne von Speyr, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joseph Ratzinger, and Erasmo Leiva-Merikakas, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD takes a small portion of a single letter of St. Paul and invites us to communion with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through an extended exercise in lectio divina. According to the ressourcement theological vision advocated by the authors above, our reading of Scripture should be a living encounter with the Eternal Word in every word of the Bible. BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD invites us into just such an encounter.