Meditation 11: First Saturday of Lent

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Meditation 11: First Saturday of Lent

Road to Calvary, Alphonsus Liguori Meditation 11: First Saturday of Lent Choosing Mortification Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You! Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world! Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy! ➕➕➕St. Ambrose - “If you look to yourself, you can do nothing, but if you trust in God, strength will be given you.”  If we would enter into the Glory of the Blessed, says the Scripture, we must, through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God: “These are the ones who have come out of great tribulation, and have washed their garments, and have made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. (Apocalypse/Revelation 7:14)” Saint Teresa of Avila - “He who drags the Cross along with ill will feels its weight, however small it is, but he willingly embraces it, however large it is, does not feel it.”

Meditation 10: First Friday of Lent

Road to Calvary, Alphonsus Liguori Meditation 10: First Friday of Lent Suffering with Patience Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You! Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world! Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy! ➕➕➕ Saint Teresa of Avila frequently said, “Domine, Aut Pati, aut Mori - Lord, I desire either to suffer or die.” (see a note on the translation at the following website) https://ericlinuskaplan.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/aut-pati-aut-mori/ [https://ericlinuskaplan.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/aut-pati-aut-mori/]  St. John of the Cross - “ Oh Lord, I ask nothing of You but to suffer and to be despised for Your sake.” St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi - “I desire to suffer and not die.” This is the Will of God, your sanctification. - 1 Thessalonians 4:3

Meditation 9: First Thursday of Lent

Road to Calvary, Saint Alphonsus Liguori Meditation 9: First Thursday of Lent Jesus's Desire to Suffer for Us Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You! Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world! Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy! ➕➕➕“(Liguori, per the Duay Rheims) I am come to cast fire upon the Earth; and what will I but that it should be kindled? I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized; and how am I straightened until it be accomplished? - (another translation, as narrated in the podcast) I came to cast fire on the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how eagerly I desire It to be accomplished!” - Luke 12:49 - 50 Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He should pass out of this world to the Father, having loved His own… He loved them to the end. - John 13:1

Meditation 8: First Wednesday of Lent

Road to Calvary, St. Alphonsus Liguori Meditation 8: First Wednesday of Lent Jesus's Sufferings Compared to Ours Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You! Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world! Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy! ➕➕➕Jesus Crucified appeared to Sister Magdalene Orsini, to animate her to suffer for sufferings in peace. She answered Him, “But Lord, You only hung on the Cross for 3 hours, whereas I have gone on suffering this pain for several years.” He replied, “From the first moment that I was in My Mother's womb, I suffered in my Heart all that I afterwards endured on the Cross.” St. Bernard: “In order to redeem the slave, the Father did not spare His own Son, nor did the Son spare Himself.”