By Vincent McNabb, O.P.

And the Word was made flesh, and came to dwell among us. (Gospel of Saint John)

“That Jesus Christ might be better known.” This was the life’s work of Vincent McNabb, O.P. To accomplish it, he toiled tirelessly in prayer, praise, and preaching; he also wrote prolifically: scores of books, articles, and pamphlets flowed from his pen, all with “the clarity and the sureness of an occasional glimpse of the heavens for a mariner in an overcast night.” In this vast literary store, perhaps no piece is more significant than A Life of Our Lord, because its subject is its author’s beloved Master and Friend. Offering a fresh telling of the life of Christ, McNabb furnishes both the facts of that life and their inward significance, making clearly visible what is so easily overlooked or obscured in contemplating the mystery of the Incarnation—the centuries of preparation of God’s chosen people, the fullness of time and the fiat of the Virgin Mary, the proclamation of the Kingdom, the fulfillment of the Paschal Mystery, and the promise of life eternal with the One who is Life itself.

First published in 1938, the fruit of fifty years’ worth of study and meditation, A Life of Our Lord is an eloquent rendition of the “romance of Redemption,” certain to bid readers onward toward the life-giving words of the Gospels, the Life of Christ “which was the first and will be forever the best.”

Vincent McNabb, O.P. (1868–1943) was an Irish Dominican priest and scholar. Active in apologetics and catechesis, he authored dozens of books and hundreds of articles, served as professor of philosophy, and filled numerous roles for his Domini­can province. Such was his sheer presence that G. K. Chesterton once wrote: “Nobody who ever met or saw or heard Father McNabb has ever forgotten him.”

Paperback: 178pp.

ISBN: 978-1685955076