Evening Meditations for the Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost~ St Alphonsus Liguori
Let us not lose courage but keep our eyes ever fixed on the Crucified One, because from Him we shall draw strength to endure the evils of this life not only with patience, but even with joy and gladness, as the Saints have done: Ye shall draw waters with joy out of the Saviour’s fountains (Is. xii. 3); that is, says St. Bonaventure, from the Wounds of Jesus Christ. Therefore the Saint exhorts us ever to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus dying upon the Cross, if we would live always united to God. “Devotion,” says St. Thomas, “consists in being ready to accomplish in ourselves whatever God demands of us.”
