The Mystery of Christ

This article by Father Boris Bobrinskoy addresses the mystery of Christ as the foundation of Christian prayer. Written in the form of a meditative theological paper, it is set within the context of a congress devoted to man as the image of God. The central idea is that human prayer can only be understood in light of the prayer of Christ himself: a filial prayer directed toward the Father, inhabited by the Holy Spirit, marked by compassion, the struggle against evil, and intercession. Bobrinskoy distinguishes four dimensions of this prayer in Jesus and shows how, through baptism and life in the Spirit, it is communicated to believers. The theological contribution lies in the articulation between Christology, pneumatology, and anthropology: man, created in the image of God, is called to allow the face of Christ to shine through him by means of a progressive inner transformation.