Road to Calvary, Alphonsus Liguori
Meditation 11: First Saturday of Lent
Choosing Mortification
Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You!
Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world!
Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy!
➕➕➕St. Ambrose - “If you look to yourself, you can do nothing, but if you trust in God, strength will be given you.”
If we would enter into the Glory of the Blessed, says the Scripture, we must, through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God: “These are the ones who have come out of great tribulation, and have washed their garments, and have made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. (Apocalypse/Revelation 7:14)”
Saint Teresa of Avila - “He who drags the Cross along with ill will feels its weight, however small it is, but he willingly embraces it, however large it is, does not feel it.”