THE word “meditation” is tossed around a lot today, but it often refers to empty and harmful practices.

The highest form of meditation, the one for which we were all destined, concerns the events of the last week of the life of Jesus Christ. Please see my Lenten Reading List for suggestions.

If you have a busy life — there is no crime in having many obligations — a few minutes a day devoted to this practice can make a huge difference, helping you to grow in wisdom and virtue.

From Of Prayer and Meditation by Venerable Louis of Granada:

Albertus Magnus saith, That it is more profitable for a man to meditate every day a little upon the holy passion of our Savior Christ, than to fast with bread and water all the Fridays in the year and to discipline and scourge himself until he shed blood, and to say all the whole Psalter from one end thereof to an other. At the least wise this is very certain, that this holy exercise is a passing great help to direct the soul in all virtue, and goodness. For considering that our Savior Christ is (as he himself saith) The way, the truth, and the life, there is none other exercise more fit and convenient to direct us to go unto God, to know God, and to enjoy God, than to fix always our eyes upon our Savior Christ. For though Christ be unto us the way, the truth, and the life, in all things wheresoever we consider him, yet is he most especially so unto us, when we behold him upon the Cross.

And,

This is so copious and so plentiful a matter to meditate upon, that certainly if a man should continue thinking upon it until the end of the world he should always find new reasons of the conveniency of this holy mystery, and new causes to induce him to lift up his spirt more and more in admiration of the high wisdom and providence of almighty God herein.

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