News Item: : Lenten Observance: It Pleases Our Lord that We Should Call to Mind His Passion
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Sunday 05 March 2017 - 20:09:28

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If you are hoping to keep a good and holy Lent, then we highly recommend St. Alphonsus de Liguori's splendid book, The Passion and The Death of Jesus Christ. This is to Lent what his reflections in The Incarnation, Birth and Infancy of Jesus are to Advent. That is to say: sheer gold for the spiritual life.

Here is just one gem from the opening pages,

If we were to endure injuries and stripes for the sake of a friend, and were then to learn that our friend, when he heard anyone speak of what we had done, would not pay any heed to it, but turned the conversation, and said, ''Let us talk of something else,'' what pain we should suffer at the sight of the neglect of the ungrateful man!

And, on the other hand, how glad we should be to find that our friend admitted that he was under an eternal obligation to us, that he constantly bore it in mind, and spoke of it with affection and tears.

Therefore the saints, knowing how much it pleases Jesus Christ that we should often call to mind His Passion, have been almost perpetually occupied in meditating on the pains and insults which our loving Redeemer suffered during His life, and still more in His death. St. Augustine writes that there is no more profitable occupation for the soul than to meditate daily on the Passion of the Lord.

As this little taster shows, this could be the perfect antidote to the ''Lent-Lite'' which is promoted in so many places these days. In this holy season of Lent, marked as it is by so much confusion and sin in the Church, may God give us each the grace to withdraw silently into the haven of Our Lord's Sacred Wounds at some point each day. 

St. Alphonsus de Liguori - Pray for us!  



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