The passion of Christ: how to meditate on it

1. It is an easy book to meditate on. The Crucifix is ​​in everyone's hands; many wear it around the neck, it is in our rooms, it is in the churches, it is the excellent trophy that recalls our eyes. Wherever you are, day and night, knowing its history minutely, it is easy for you to meditate on it. Does the variety of scenes, the multiplicity of things, the importance of the fact, the eloquence of the dripping blood not facilitate meditation?

2. Usefulness of meditating on it. St. Albert the Great writes: Meditating on the Passion of Jesus is more than a fast for bread and water, and a scourge for blood. Saint Geltrude says that the Lord looks with an eye of mercy on those who meditate on the Crucifix. St. Bernard adds that the Passion of Jesus breaks the stones, that is, the hearts of hardened sinners. What a rich school of virtues for the imperfect! What a flame of love for the righteous! So try to meditate on it.

3. Way to meditate on it. 1. By sympathizing with the pains of Jesus who is our father, our God who suffers for us. 2. By imprinting in our body the wounds of Jesus with penances, with some austerity, with carrying mortification in our body, or at least with patience. 3. Imitating the virtues of Jesus: obedience, humility, poverty, silence in insults, total sacrifice. If you did this, wouldn't you improve?

PRACTICE. - Kiss the Crucifix; along the day repeat: Jesus Christ crucified, have mercy on me.