Category: 03.iv.22 Passiontide

Morning Meditations for Passion Thursday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Then Pilate, therefore, took Jesus, and scourged him. (John xix. 1). O thou unjust judge, thou hast declared Him innocent, and then thou dost condemn Him to so cruel and so ignominious a punishment! Behold, now, my soul, how, after this unjust decree, the executioners seize hold of the Divine Lamb; they take Him to the pretorium, and bind Him with ropes to the pillar.

Spiritual Reading for Passion Wednesday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Jesus, by His Passion and Death, says a devout writer, gave us the greatest possible proof of His love, beyond which there remained for Him nothing He could do to show how much He loved us: “The biggest proof of love was that which He showed forth at the end of His life on the Cross.”

Jesus, knowing that the hour of His Passion had now come, after having washed the feet of His disciples and instituted the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, –wherein He left us His whole Self– goes to the Garden of Gethsemani, whither He knew already His enemies would come to take Him… 

Spiritual Reading for Passion Monday ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

Jesus, by His Passion and Death, says a devout writer, gave us the greatest possible proof of His love, beyond which there remained for Him nothing He could do to show how much He loved us: “The biggest proof of love was that which He showed forth at the end of His life on the Cross.”

Jesus, knowing that the hour of His Passion had now come, after having washed the feet of His disciples and instituted the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, –wherein He left us His whole Self– goes to the Garden of Gethsemani, whither He knew already His enemies would come to take Him…