"Though hast paid the price, it is done, it is secured." 1. IT is over now, O Lord, as with Thy sufferings, so with our humiliations. We have followed Thee from Thy fasting in the wilderness till Thy death on the Cross. For forty days we have professed to do penance. The time has been long …
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Image: El Greco, Jesus Carrying the Cross, (source) "He gave the word and His heart broke." 1. His bodily pains were greater than those of any martyr, because He willed them to be greater. All pain of body depends, as to be felt at all, so to be felt in this or that degree, on the …
Continue reading The Bodily Sufferings of Our Lord – meditation for Good Friday from Cardinal Newman
"He trod the winepress alone." 1. SYMPATHY may be called an eternal law, for it is signified or rather transcendentally and archetypically fulfilled in the ineffable mutual love of the Divine Trinity. God, though infinitely One, has ever been Three. He ever has rejoiced in His Son and His Spirit, and they in Him—and thus through …
"Every fresh sin, every fresh ingratitude I now commit, was among the blows and stripes which once fell on thee." Image: The Last Supper by Jean Baptiste de Champaigne, (source). 1. AFTER all His discourses were consummated (Matt. xxvi. 1), fully finished and brought to an end, then He said, The Son of Man will be …
"Ye play with your palms and crowns beneath the very altar." There are many moments of beauty and pathos in the Church's year. But, in my opinion, few are so equally filled with both bitterness and glory as the feast of the Holy Innocents. It is very noticeable that Christ's coming to the world is …
“Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?” Picture: Chora Church Anastasis, Wikimedia Commons Brief Preface “Search the scriptures," said the Lord. "For you think in them to have life everlasting: And the same are they that give testimony of me, and you will …
"She kept all these words in her heart." Both of the these aids take a short text (usually from Holy Scripture) for each Our Father and Hail Mary. This one mostly features texts from the New Testament, but with some divergence into the Church's traditional texts and images. Each Our Father generally sets the scene …