“SUFFERING spoils many souls. There are many pious souls who turn away from God through suffering. Self and its claims to attention are too strong and — then love and devotion or fidelity to Our Lord give way to self-pity, murmuring, resistance, bitterness. Punishment and purification too frequently embitter the heart, turn it from its end — from its Divine Master and Lover — and harden it in perversity. But if under sufferings, humiliations, trials and repugnances, we have the light, grace and courage to accept them in submission, in resignation and in self-humiliation, and with a closer movement to the bosom of our Heavenly Father, our Loving Lord and Master, then never, never has our love of that Father in heaven, that blessed Master, been more thorough, more effective and more intensely sincere.

“The history of the Sacred Passion and Death of Our Lord contains excellences and advantages of its own above all other subjects on which we can exercise ourselves in meditation. Meditation on the Passion of Our Lord is good for all persons and for all conditions of men. It has the power to turn sinners from evil and rouse them to sorrow for their sins and abhorrence of them. It gives strength and a powerful example of virtue to those who are making progress and it is the most forcible incentive to love for the perfect.”

—- Meditation on the Passion, Compiled from Various Sources, with an Introduction by Rev. Reginald Walsh, O.P.

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