{"id":11276,"date":"2025-11-10T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/?page_id=11276"},"modified":"2025-11-13T23:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:46:37","slug":"daily-meditations-twenty-second-week-after-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/daily-meditations-twenty-second-week-after-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY MEDITATIONS: TWENTY-SECOND WEEK AFTER PENTECOST"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meditaci\u00f3n matutina:\u00a0 \u201cTHOU ART JUST, O LORD, AND THY JUDGMENT IS RIGHT\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

By our sins long ago committed, and often since, we\u00a0<\/span>have deserved hell.\u00a0 And do we understand what hell <\/i>means?\u00a0 One moment in hell is more dreadful than a hundred years of most frightful torments. \u00a0And yet we complain if God sends us sufferings.\u00a0 O Lord, Thou art just!\u00a0 Give us grace to suffer with patience.<\/span><\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are we to look upon God as a tyrant who takes pleasure in our suffering? \u00a0He does take pleasure in punishing us, but exactly the same pleasure a father takes in correcting his son: He does not take pleasure in the pain which He inflicts, but in the amendment it will work. \u00a0My son, reject not the correction of the Lord; and do not faint when thou art chastised by him, for whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth, and as a father in the son, he pleaseth himself. <\/em>\u2014 (Prov. iii. 11). \u00a0He chastises you because He loves you; it is not that He wishes to see you afflicted, but converted; and if He takes pleasure in your suffering, He does so inasmuch as it is a means of conversion \u2013 just as a father who chastises his son derives pleasure, not from the affliction of his son, but from the amendment which he hopes to see in him, and which will prevent him from working his own ruin. \u00a0Chastisement makes us return to God, says St. John Chrysostom; and it is to this end God inflicts it, in order that we may not stay away from Him.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why then do you complain of God when in tribulation? \u00a0You ought to thank Him prostrate on the earth. \u00a0If a man condemned to die were to have his sentence changed by the prince from death into one hour\u2019s imprisonment, and if he were to complain of that one hour, would his complaint be just? \u00a0Would he not rather deserve that the prince should reverse the last sentence, and condemn him a second time to death?\u00a0 You have long and often deserved hell by your sins.\u00a0 And do you know all that the word hell<\/em> means? \u00a0Know that it is more dreadful to suffer for one moment in hell than to suffer for a hundred years the most frightful torments which the Martyrs suffered on earth; and in this hell you should have had to suffer not for a moment, but during all eternity. \u00a0And yet you complain if God send you some tribulation, some infirmity, some loss! \u00a0Thank God, and say: Lord, this chastisement is trifling compared with my sins. \u00a0I should have been in hell burning, deserted by all, and in despair; I thank Thee for having called me to Thyself by this tribulation which Thou hast sent me. \u00a0God, says Oleaster, often calls sinners to repentance by temporal chastisements.\u00a0 By earthly chastisements the Lord shows us the immense punishment our sins deserve; and therefore afflicts us on this earth, that we may be converted and escape eternal flames.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
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Spiritual Reading:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>HOLY HUMILITY<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

V.\u00a0 HUMILITY OF THE INTELLECT OR JUDGMENT<\/p>

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Meditaci\u00f3n vespertina:\u00a0\u00a0INTERIOR TRIALS<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are to have this certain confidence that in obeying our Spiritual Father, we are sure of not sinning. \u00a0“The sovereign remedy for the scrupulous,\u201d says St. Bernard, \u201cis a blind obedience to their confessor.\u201d \u00a0John Gerson relates, that the same Saint told one of his disciples, who was scrupulous, to go and celebrate, and take his word for it. \u00a0He went, and was cured of his scruples.\u00a0 \u201cBut a person may answer,\u201d says Gerson, \"<\/sup>Would to God I had a St. Bernard for my director! \u00a0Mine is one of indifferent wisdom.\u201d \u00a0And he answers, \u201cThou dost err, whoever thou art that so speakest; for thou hast not given thyself into the hands of the man because he is well read, etc., but because he is placed over thee; wherefore obey him not as man, but as God.\u201d \u00a0Hence St. Teresa has well said: \u201cLet the soul accept the confessor with a determination to think no more of personal excuses, but to trust in the words of the Lord: He that heareth you heareth me.\u201d
<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hence St. Francis de Sales, speaking of direction from a Spiritual Father in order to walk securely in the way of God, says: \u201cThis is the very counsel of all counsels.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cSearch as much as you will,\u201d says the saintly Father John of Avila, \u201cyou<\/em> will in no way discover the will of God so surely as by the path of that humble obedience which is so much recommended and practised by the devout of former times.\u201d \u00a0Thus, too, Father Alvarez said: \u201cEven if the Spiritual Father should err, the obedient soul is secure from error, because it rests on the judgment of him whom God has given it as a superior.\u201d \u00a0And Father Nieremberg writes to the same effect: \u201cLet the soul obey the confessor; and then, although the thing itself were faulty, he does not sin who does it with the intention of obeying him who holds the place of God in his regard, persuading himself, as is, indeed, the case, that he is bound to obey him,\u201d who is the interpreter of the Divine will.<\/p>

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Meditaci\u00f3n matutina:\u00a0 \u201cWHO WILL HAVE ALL MEN TO BE SAVED\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0God wishes that we should all be saved, as the Apostle assures us when he says God will have all men to be saved. <\/em>\u2014 (1 Tim. ii. 4).\u00a0 \u00a0And although He sees so many sinners who deserve hell, He does not wish any of them to be lost but that they be restored to grace by penance and saved. \u00a0Not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance. \u2014 <\/em>(2 Peter iii. 9).<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0He who has a good heart cannot but feel compassion for the afflicted, and wish to see all men happy. \u00a0But who has a heart as good as the Lord\u2019s?\u00a0 He by His nature is infinite goodness, and hence it is that God by His nature has an extreme desire to deliver us from every evil, and render us happy in all things, nay, even to be partakers of His own happiness.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God wishes that we should all be saved, as the Apostle assures us: God … who will have all men to be saved. \u2014 <\/em>(1 Tim. ii. 4). \u00a0And although He sees so many sinners who deserve hell, He does not wish that any of them should be lost, but that they should be restored to grace by penance, and be saved. \u00a0Not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance. <\/em>\u2014 (2 Peter iii. 9). \u00a0But before delivering us from the punishment we have deserved, and dispensing His graces, God wishes to be besought in prayer. \u00a0\u201cBy prayer,\u201d says St. Laurence Justinian, \u201cthe wrath of God is suspended, His vengeance is delayed, and pardon finally procured.\u201d \u00a0Oh how great are the promises which God makes to him who prays! \u00a0Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee. \u2014 <\/em>(Ps. xlix. 15). \u00a0Cry to me, and I will hear thee. \u2014 <\/em>(Jer. xxxiii. 3). \u00a0You shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. \u2014 <\/em>(John xv. 7). \u00a0Theodoret says that Prayer though being but one, can do all things. \u00a0And let us bear in mind that when we pray and ask things conducive to salvation not even our sins can prevent our receiving the graces which we beg \u2013 For every one that asketh receiveth. \u2014 <\/em>(Matt. vii. 8). \u00a0Jesus Christ here says that whoever asks, be he just or sinner, shall receive. Wherefore did David say: For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild, and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. \u2014 <\/em>(Ps. Ixxxv. 5). \u00a0Hence, in order to excite us to prayer, the Apostle St. James tells us: But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not. <\/em>\u2014 (James i. 5).<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
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Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 HOLY HUMILITY<\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>

VI.\u00a0 HUMILITY OF THE INTELLECT OR JUDGMENT<\/p>

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Meditaci\u00f3n vespertina:\u00a0\u00a0INTERIOR TRIALS<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Father Wigandt says that the scrupulous soul should obey the Confessor in all cases where the command is not plainly a sin, and this is the general and undoubted decision among the Doctors of the spiritual life. \u00a0St. Ignatius Loyola says: \u201cThere must be obedience in all things in which no sin is perceived \u2013 that is, in which there is no manifest sin.\u201d \u00a0Blessed Humbert, General of the Friar Preachers says: \u201cUnless the command be plainly evil, it is to be received as though enjoined by God.\u201d \u00a0Blessed Denis the Carthusian says: \u201cIn things doubtful as to whether or not they are against the Divine precept, one must stand by the precept of the superior; because, although it should be against the precept of God, yet, in virtue of obedience, the person under direction sins not.\u201d \u00a0St. Bonaventure teaches the same.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe scrupulous are to act against their scruples,\u201d says Gerson, \u201cand plant their feet firmly in resisting.\u00a0 We cannot set scruples at rest better than by despising them; and, as a general rule, not without the advice of another, and especially our Superior. \u00a0Otherwise, either ill-regulated fear or over-presumption will be our ruin.\u201d\u00a0 The remedy St. Philip Neri gave the scrupulous was, to make them despise their scruples. \u00a0It is told in his Life that, besides the general remedy of committing one\u2019s self altogether and for everything to the judgment of the confessor, the Saint gave another: his penitents should despise their scruples. \u00a0Hence he forbade such persons to confess often; and when, in Confession, they entered upon their scruples, he used to send them to Communion without hearing them.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
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Meditaci\u00f3n matutina:\u00a0 \u201cYOU RECEIVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASK AMISS\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many there are who ask graces from God but do not obtain them. \u00a0And why is this? \u00a0St. James answers and says they receive not because they do not ask as they should. \u00a0You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss. <\/em>\u2014 (James iv. 3). \u00a0How can God hear the sinner who prays to Him to be freed from affliction, when he will not abandon sin which is the cause of all his miseries? \u00a0We cannot expect to be heard unless our prayer be accompanied by a firm purpose to amend.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God desires to deliver us from every evil, and to share His blessings with us, but He wishes us to ask Him in prayer, and so to pray that we may deserve to be heard. \u00a0How can God listen to the prayer of the sinner who prays to Him that he may be freed from his afflictions, whilst he is unwilling to abandon sin, which is the cause of his afflictions? \u00a0When the impious Jeroboam stretched out his hand against the Prophet, who reproached him with his wretchedness, the Lord caused his hand to wither up, so that he could not draw it back. \u00a0And his hand which he stretched forth against him withered, and he was not able to draw it back again to him. \u2014 <\/em>(3 Kings xiii. 4). \u00a0Then the king turned to the man of God, and besought him to beg of the Lord to restore his hand. \u00a0Theodoret says with regard to this circumstance: \u201cFool that he was to have asked the Prophet\u2019s prayers for the restoration of his hand, and not pardon of his sins.\u201d \u00a0Thus do many act; they beg of God to deliver them from their afflictions; they beg of the servants of God to avert by their prayers the threatened chastisements, but they do not seek to obtain the grace of abandoning their sins and changing their lives. \u00a0And how can such persons hope to be freed from chastisement when they will not remove its cause?\u00a0 It is accursed sin that arms the hand of the Lord with thunders to chastise and afflict us. \u00a0\u201cPunishment is the fine that is to be paid for sin,\u201d says Tertullian. \u00a0The afflictions we suffer are a fine which must be paid by him whom sin has subjected to the penalty. \u00a0St. Basil in like manner says that sin is a note of hand which we give against ourselves. \u00a0Since we sin, we voluntarily go into debt to God\u2019s justice. \u00a0It is not God, then, who makes us miserable; it is sin. \u00a0Sin maketh nations miserable. \u2014 <\/em>(Prov. xiv. 34). \u00a0Sin it is which obliges God to create chastisements: Famine, and affliction, and scourges, all these things are created for the wicked. \u2014 <\/em>(Ecclus. xl. 9).
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremias, addressing the sword of the Lord, says: O thou sword of the Lord, how long will thou not be quiet? \u00a0Go into thy scabbard, rest and be still. \u2014 <\/em>(Jer. xlvii. 6). \u00a0But then, he goes on to say: How shall it be quiet when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon?<\/em> \u00a0How can the sword of the Lord ever be at rest if sinners do not choose to abandon their sins, notwithstanding that the Lord has given a charge to his sword to execute vengeance as long as sinners shall continue to deserve it? \u00a0But some will say, we make Novenas, we fast, we give alms, we pray to God: why are we not heard? \u00a0To them the Lord replies, When they fast, I will not hear their prayers, and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them; for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence. \u2014 <\/em>(Jer. xiv. 12). \u00a0The Lord exclaims: How can I hear the prayers of those who beg to be freed from their afflictions, and not from their sins, because they do not wish to reform? \u00a0What care I for their fasts, and their sacrifices, and their alms, when they will not change their lives? \u00a0I will consume them by the sword.<\/em> \u00a0With all their prayers and devotions, and penitential exercises, I shall be obliged by My justice to punish them.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
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Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 HOLY HUMILITY<\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>

VII.\u00a0 HUMILITY OF THE HEART OR WILL<\/p>

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Meditaci\u00f3n vespertina:\u00a0\u00a0INTERIOR TRIALS<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God is all goodness to those who seek Him. \u00a0El Se\u00f1or es bueno con el alma que lo busca. <\/em>\u2014 (Lam. iii. 25). \u00a0No one has ever put his trust in God, and had to remain abandoned by Him: None had hoped in the Lord, and been confounded. \u2014 <\/em>(Ecclus. ii. 11). \u00a0God lets Himself be found even by those who seek Him not. \u00a0I<\/em> was found by them that did not seek me. \u2014 <\/em>(Rom. x. 20).\u00a0 With how much greater ease will He not allow Himself to be found by one who does seek Him! \u00a0Let no one say that God has abandoned him; the Lord abandons none but the very obstinate who desire to live in sin; neither does He altogether abandon even these, but is ever going after them up to the time of their death, giving them graces for their succour, that so He may not see them lost.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When a soul is desirous to love Him, God cannot but love it, as He has Himself declared: I love them that love me. <\/em>\u2014 (Prov. viii. 17). \u00a0And whenever He hides Himself from these loving souls, He does so for their advantage only, that He may see them yet more desirous of finding His grace, and more closely united with Himself. \u00a0When St. Catharine of Genoa was suffering aridity to such a degree that it seemed to her as if God had abandoned her, and that nothing remained to her as a ground for hope, it was then that she would say: \u201cHow happy I am in this state, deplorable even though it be! \u00a0May my heart be broken to pieces, provided that my Love be glorified! O my dearest Love, if from this unhappy state of mine is produced but a single atom of glory for Thee, I pray that Thou wouldst leave me thus for all eternity!\u201d \u00a0And saying this, she would burst into a flood of tears in the midst of her desolation.<\/p>

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Meditaci\u00f3n matutina:\u00a0 THE HAPPINESS THAT COMES FROM CONFORMITY TO GOD\u2019S WILL<\/em><\/strong><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He who is conformed in everything to the Divine will, enjoys perpetual peace even in this life. \u00a0Whatsoever shall befall the just man, it shall not make him sad. <\/em>\u2014 (Prov. xii. 21). \u00a0At the mere word \u2013 the Will of God \u2013<\/em>\u00a0St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi used to feel so much delight she would fall into an ecstasy of love.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He who is conformed in everything to the Divine will, enjoys perpetual peace even in this world. \u00a0Whatsoever shall befall the just man, it shall not make him sad. <\/em>\u2014 (Prov. xii. 21). \u00a0Yes, for a man cannot enjoy greater happiness than that which arises from the accomplishment of all his wishes. \u00a0He who wills only what God wills, sees always his own will done; for whatever happens to him happens by the will of God. \u00a0If such a soul, says Salvian, be humbled, it desires humiliations; if it be poor, it delights in poverty, wishing whatever happens, and thus it leads a happy life. \u00a0Let cold, heat, wind, or rain come, and he that is united with the will of God, says: I wish for this cold, this heat, this wind, and this rain, because God wills them. \u00a0If loss of property, persecution, or sickness befall, he says: I wish to be poor, to be persecuted, to be sick, because such is the will of God. \u00a0He who reposes in the Divine will, and is resigned to whatever the Lord does, is like a man who stands above the clouds, and there, calm and secure, beholds the tempest raging below. \u00a0This is the peace which, according to the Apostle, surpasseth all understanding \u2014 <\/em>(Phil. iv. 7), which exceeds all the delights of the world; a perpetual peace, subject to no vicissitudes.\u00a0 A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun, but a fool is changed as the moon. <\/em>\u2014 (Ecclus. xxvii. 12).\u00a0 Fools \u2013 that is, sinners \u2013 are changed like the moon, which increases to-day, grows less to-morrow. \u00a0To-day they laugh, to-morrow they weep; to-day all joy and meekness, to-morrow, all sadness and disturbed; in a word, they change with every wind. \u00a0But the just man is like the sun, always the same, and uniformly tranquil whatever happens; for his peace rests on conformity to the Divine will. \u00a0And on earth peace to men of good will. \u2014 <\/em>(Luke ii. 14). \u00a0At the mere words the Will of God, <\/em>St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi used to feel such delight she would fall into an ecstasy of love. \u00a0When the will is united with the will of God, crosses may produce some pain in the inferior part, but in the superior part peace will always reign. \u00a0Your joy no man shall take from you. <\/em>\u2014 (John xvi. 22). \u00a0But how great the folly of those who oppose the will of God! \u00a0What God wishes will certainly happen; for who resisteth his will? <\/em>\u2014 (Rom. ix. 19).\u00a0 They, therefore, must bear the cross, but without fruit and without peace. \u00a0Who hath resisted him, and hath <\/em>had peace? <\/em>\u2014 (Job ix. 4).
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And what else but our welfare does God will? \u00a0This is the will of your God, your sanctification. <\/em>\u2014 (1 Thess. iv. 3). \u00a0He wishes to see us saints, that we may be at peace in this life, and happy in the next. \u00a0Let us remember that the crosses which come to us from God work together unto good. <\/em>\u2014 (Rom. viii. 28). \u00a0Even chastisements are inflicted on us in this life, not for our destruction, but that we may amend, and gain eternal beatitude. \u00a0Let us believe that these scourges of the Lord …. have happened for our amendment, and not for our destruction. <\/em>\u2014 (Judith viii. 27). \u00a0God loves us so ardently, that He not only desires, but is solicitous for, the salvation of each of us. \u00a0The Lord is careful for me. \u2014 <\/em>(Ps. xxxix. 18). \u00a0And what will He deny us after having given us His Son? \u00a0He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also with him given us all things. \u2014 <\/em>(Rom. viii. 32).
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>O Jesus, my Redeemer, Thou hast sacrificed Thy life on the Cross in order to become the cause of my salvation; have mercy on me, then, and save me; do not permit a soul Thou hast redeemed with so many pains, and so much love, to hate Thee for eternity in hell.\u00a0 Thou canst do nothing more to oblige me to love Thee.\u00a0 This Thou gavest me to understand, when, before expiring on Calvary, Thou didst utter these loving words: Se consuma. \u00a0<\/em>But how have I repaid Thy love?\u00a0 In the past, I can truly say I have done all I could to displease Thee, and to oblige Thee to hate me. \u00a0I thank Thee for having borne with me so patiently, and for now giving me time to repair my ingratitude, and to love Thee before I die. \u00a0Yes, I wish to love Thee, and I wish to love Thee ardently, my Saviour, my God, my Love, and my All!<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>

Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 <\/b><\/strong>HOLY HUMILITY<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

VIII.\u00a0 HUMILITY OF THE HEART OR WILL<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n vespertina:\u00a0\u00a0INTERIOR TRIALS<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When you experience more aridity than usual, occupy yourself in the delight of the infinite joy that God enjoys. \u00a0He is the object of our love, and the most perfect act of love even the Saints in Heaven can perform is to rejoice in the beatitude of God immeasurably more than in their own.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Meditate constantly on the Passion of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Jesus suffering out of His love for us is the object which most forcibly attracts our hearts. \u00a0If, while meditating on the Mysteries of the Passion, the Lord grants you any feeling of tenderness, receive it with thankfulness; but whenever you do not experience this, you must know that you will always derive from the practice great comfort for your soul. \u00a0Frequently go more especially to the Garden of Gethsemani, after the example of St. Teresa, who used to say that she found Jesus there alone; and on considering Him when in affliction so great that He falls into an agony, sweats blood, and declares His sorrow to be such as to be enough to cause Him to die, you will readily find comfort in any afflictions of your own, seeing that He endures it all out of love for you. \u00a0And at the sight of Jesus preparing Himself to die for you, do you likewise prepare yourself to die for Him. \u00a0And when you experience in your distress more affliction than usual, then say what St. Thomas the Apostle said to the other disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him. <\/em>\u2014 (John xi. 16).\u00a0 Let us die with Jesus. \u00a0Go likewise to Calvary, where you will find Him expiring on the Cross, consumed by suffering; and seeing Him in that condition, it will be impossible for you not to be ready willingly to suffer pain of every kind for a God Who is dying of sufferings undergone through His love for you. \u00a0St. Paul protested that He neither knew nor wished to know anything in this life save Jesus crucified: For I judged not myself to know anything among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. \u2014 <\/em>(1 Cor. ii. 2). \u00a0Let him who would preserve devotion within his soul, says St. Bonaventure, ever keep the eyes of his heart fixed upon Christ dying upon the Cross. \u00a0And thus, in all your fears, look at Jesus crucified, and take courage, and brace yourself up to suffer through love for Him.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 O Lord, take not Thyself from me, and then take from me all besides, as may seem good in Thy sight. \u00a0My Love, draw me after Thee, and then it matters not though Thou take from me the consolation of being conscious of it; but let it be forcibly that Thou drawest me out of the mire of my sins. \u00a0Help Thy servants whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy precious Blood.\u00a0 I wish to be all Thine own, cost what it may; I wish to love Thee with all my strength; but what can I do myself? \u00a0Thy Blood is my hope. \u00a0O Mary, Mother of God, my refuge, neglect not to pray for me in all my tribulations. \u00a0First of all in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and then in thy prayers, do I trust for my eternal salvation. \u00a0In thee, O Lady, have I hoped, I shall not be confounded forever. \u00a0Obtain for me the grace ever to love my God in this life and in eternity, and I ask for nothing more.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Meditaci\u00f3n matutina:\u00a0 \u201cMY MEAT IS TO DO THE WILL OF HIM THAT SENT ME\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this mortal life, meat<\/em> is that which preserves our life. \u00a0Our Divine Lord said it was His meat<\/em> to do the will of His Father. \u00a0Life in his will. \u2014 <\/em>(Ps. xxix. 6). \u00a0Our life depends upon our doing the Divine will; he that does it not, is dead.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. <\/em>\u2014 (John iv. 34). \u00a0In this mortal life, meat<\/em> is that which preserves our life. \u00a0Our Divine Lord said it was His meat<\/em> to do the will of His Father. \u00a0Life in his will. \u2014 <\/em>(Ps. xxix. 6).\u00a0 Our life depends upon our doing the Divine will; he that does it not, is dead.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Wise Man says: They that are faithful in love shall rest in him. <\/em>\u2014 (Wis. iii. 9). \u00a0They who have little love for God will desire that God should agree with them; that He should conform to their pleasure and do whatever they desire. \u00a0But they who truly love God unite their wills to His will and are satisfied with everything that God does with them. \u00a0With everything that comes, with every adversity, sickness, dishonour, weariness, loss of property and friends, they have ever on their lips and in their hearts these words: \u00a1H\u00e1gase tu voluntad!
<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0God desires only that which is best for us, that is our sanctification. \u00a0Let us take care, therefore, to unite our will ever to the will of God and thus we shall be able to convince and calm our minds, recollecting that everything that God does is the best thing that can befall us. \u00a0Whoever neglects this will never find true peace. All the perfection that can be attained in this world, which is a place of purification, and consequently a place of pains and troubles, consists in suffering patiently those things that are opposed to our self-love; and, in order to suffer with patience, there is no more efficacious means than a willingness to suffer, in order to do the will of God. \u00a0Submit thyself, then, to him, and be at peace. \u2014 <\/em>(Job xxii. 21). \u00a0He that agrees with the Divine will in everything is always at peace, and nothing that happens to him can make him unhappy.\u00a0 Whatsoever shall befall the just man, it shall not make him sad. \u2014 <\/em>(Prov. xii. 21). \u00a0But why is the just man never unhappy under any circumstances? \u00a0Because he knows well that whatever happens in the world, happens through the will of God.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>

Lectura espiritual:\u00a0 HOLY HUMILITY<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

IX.\u00a0 PATIENCE UNDER CORRECTION<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n vespertina:\u00a0\u00a0 THE MEANS TO ACQUIRE THE PERFECT LOVE OF GOD<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To acquire the perfect love of God we must adopt the means of becoming saints.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first means is, to detach the heart from all creatures, and to banish from the soul every affection which is not for God. \u00a0The first question which the Ancient Fathers of the Desert used to put to every one who sought admission into their society was: \u201cDo you bring an empty heart, that the Holy Ghost may be able to fill it?\u201d \u00a0If the world be not expelled from the heart, God cannot enter it. \u00a0St. Teresa said: \u201cDetach the heart from creatures; seek God, and you shall find Him.\u201d \u00a0St. Augustine writes, that the Romans worshipped thirty thousand gods; but among these gods the Roman Senate refused to admit Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Because, said they, He is a proud God, Who requires that He alone should be adored. \u00a0This they had reason to say, for our God wishes to have entire possession of our souls. \u00a0He is, as St. Jerome says, a jealous God.\u00a0 And therefore He will have no rival in the affections of our heart. \u00a0Hence the spouse in the Canticles is called an enclosed garden. \u00a0My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed. <\/em>\u2014 (Cant. iv. 12). \u00a0The soul, then, that wishes to belong entirely to God must be closed to all love which is not for God.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hence the Divine Spouse is said to be wounded by one of the eyes of His spouse. \u00a0Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast wounded my heart with one of thy eyes. \u2014 <\/em>(Cant. iv. 9). \u00a0One of her eyes signifies, that in all her thoughts and actions the only end of the spouse is to please God, while, in their devout exercises, worldlings propose to themselves different objects \u2013 sometimes their own interest, sometimes to please their friends, and sometimes to please themselves. \u00a0But the Saints seek only to please God, to Whom they turn, and say: What have I in<\/em> heaven? and besides thee, what do I desire upon earth? … Thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever. <\/em>\u2014 (Ps. lxxii. 25). \u00a0We should do the same if we wished to be saints. \u00a0If, says St. John Chrysostom, we do a thing to please God, why should we seek any other reward? \u00a0Or what greater reward can a creature wish for than to please its Creator? \u00a0Hence, in all we desire or do, we should seek nothing but God.\u00a0 A certain solitary, named Zeno, walking through the desert, absorbed in meditation, met the Emperor Macedonius going to hunt. \u00a0The Emperor asked him what he was doing. \u00a0In answer, the solitary said: You go in quest of game; I seek God alone. \u00a0St. Francis de Sales used to say, that the pure love of God consumes all that is not God.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
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Meditaci\u00f3n matutina:\u00a0 JESUS \u201cDESPISED AND THE MOST ABJECT OF MEN\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We have seen him …. despised and the most abject of men. \u2014 <\/em>(Is. liii. 2, 3). \u00a0This great prodigy was once seen upon earth \u2014 the Son of God, the Lord of all Creation, the King of Heaven, despised as the most abject of men! \u00a0Ah, how few there are, even among Christians, who reflect on the sorrows and ignominies which this Saviour endured for our sakes!<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We<\/em> have seen him,<\/em> says the Prophet Isaias, despised and the most abject of men.<\/em> \u00a0This great prodigy was once seen upon the earth \u2014 the Son of God, the King of Heaven, the Lord of all Creation, despised as the most abject of men! \u00a0St. Anselm says that Jesus Christ wished to be humbled and despised in such a manner that it would be impossible for Him to endure greater humiliations or contempt. \u00a0He was treated as a person of mean condition. \u00a0Is not this,<\/em> said the Jews, the carpenter\u2019s son? <\/em>\u2014 (Matt. xiii. 55). \u00a0He was despised on account of His country: Can anything of good come from Nazareth? <\/em>\u2014 (John i. 46). \u00a0He was called a madman: He is mad; why hear you him? \u2014 <\/em>(John x. 20). \u00a0He was considered a glutton and a friend of wine: Behold a man that is a glutton and a drinker of wine. \u2014 <\/em>(Luke vii. 34). \u00a0He was called a sorcerer: By the prince of devils he casteth out devils. \u2014 <\/em>(Matt. ix. 34). \u00a0And also a heretic: Do we not say well that thou art a Samaritan? \u2014 <\/em>(John viii. 48).
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But during His Passion He suffered still greater insults.\u00a0 He was treated as a blasphemer: when He declared that He was the Son of God, Caiphas said to the other priests: Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy: what think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death. <\/em>\u2014 (Matt. xxvi. 65, 66). \u00a0As soon as Jesus was declared guilty of blasphemy, some began to spit in His face, and others to buffet Him. \u00a0Then, indeed, was fulfilled the prediction of Isaias: I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them; I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me and spit upon me. \u2014 <\/em>(Is. 1. 6). \u00a0Jesus was treated too as a false prophet: Prophesy unto us, O Christ; who is he that struck Thee. \u2014 <\/em>(Matt. xxvi. 68). \u00a0The injury done Him by His own disciple Peter, who denied Him three times, and swore he had never known Him, added to the pain our Saviour suffered from the ignominies of that night.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let us, O devout souls, go to our afflicted Lord, in that prison in which He is abandoned by all, and accompanied only by His enemies, who contend with each other in insulting and maltreating Him. \u00a0Let us thank Him for all He suffers for us with so much patience; and let us console Him by acts of sorrow for the insults we have ourselves offered to Him; for we too have treated Him with contempt, and by our sins have denied Him, and declared that we knew Him not.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ah, my amiable Redeemer, I would wish to die of grief at the thought of having given so much pain to Thy Heart, which has loved me so ardently. \u00a0Ah, forget the great offences I have offered Thee, and look at me with that loving look which Thou didst cast on Peter after he denied Thee, and which made him bewail his sins unceasingly till death. \u00a0O great Son of God, O infinite Love, Who dost suffer for the very men that hate and maltreat Thee! \u00a0Thou art adored by the Angels, O infinite majesty! \u00a0Thou wouldst confer too great an honour on men in permitting them to kiss Thy feet!\u00a0 And yet, O God, Thou didst allow Thyself on that night to be made an object of mockery to so vile a rabble!\u00a0 My despised Jesus, make me suffer contempt for Thy sake. \u00a0How can I refuse insults, when I see that Thou, my God, hast borne so many for the love of me? \u00a0Ah, my crucified Jesus, make me know Thee and love Thee.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>

Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 HOLY HUMILITY<\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>

X.\u00a0 PATIENCE IN BEARING CONTEMPT<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n vespertina:\u00a0 THE DESOLATE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST<\/em>\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The life of our loving Redeemer was full of desolation, and bereft of every comfort. \u00a0It was a great ocean of bitterness, without one drop of sweetness or consolation: For great as the sea is thy destruction. \u2014 <\/em>(Lam. ii. 13).\u00a0 This was revealed by our Lord to St. Margaret of Cortona, when He told her that in His whole life He never experienced sensible consolation.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The sadness which He felt in the Garden of Gethsemani was so great that it was sufficient to take away His life. \u00a0My soul,<\/em> He said, is sorrowful even unto death. \u2014 <\/em>(Matt. xxvi. 38). \u00a0This sadness afflicted Him not only in the Garden, but it always filled His soul with desolation, from the first moment of His Conception: for all the pains and ignominies He was to suffer until death were always present to Him.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the extreme affliction He suffered during His whole life arose not so much from the knowledge of all the sufferings He was to endure during life, and especially at death, as from the sight of all the sins men would commit after His death. \u00a0He came to abolish sin, and to save souls from hell by His death; but, after all His cruel sufferings, He saw all the sins men would commit; and the sight of each sin, being clearly before His mind while He lived here below, was to Him, as St. Bernardine of Sienna writes, a source of immense affliction. \u00a0This was the sorrow which was always before His eyes, and kept Him always in desolation: My sorrow is continually before me. \u2014 <\/em>(Ps. xxxvii. 18).\u00a0 St. Thomas teaches that the sight of the sins of men, and of the multitude of souls that would bring themselves to perdition, excited in Jesus Christ a sorrow which surpassed the sorrow of all penitents, even of those who died of pure grief. \u00a0The holy Martyrs suffered great torments, they bore tortures from iron hooks, and nails, and red-hot plates: but God always sweetened their pains by interior consolations. \u00a0But no Martyrdom has been more painful than that of Jesus Christ, for His pain and sadness were pure, unmitigated pain and sorrow, without the smallest comfort. \u00a0\u201cThe greatness of Christ\u2019s suffering,\u201d says the Angelic Doctor, \u201cis estimated from the pureness of His pain and sadness.\u201d<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
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Meditaci\u00f3n matutina:\u00a0 \u201cTURN, THEN, THINE EYES OF MERCY TOWARDS US\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

I.\u00a0 MARY IS ALL EYES TO PITY AND SUCCOUR US IN OUR NECESSITIES<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0St. Epiphanius calls the Divine Mother \u201cmany-eyed,\u201d indicating thereby her watchfulness in assisting us poor creatures in this valley of tears. \u00a0The eyes of the Lord are on the just. <\/em>\u2014 (Ps. xxxiii. 16). \u00a0\u201cBut the eyes of the Lady are on just and sinners,\u201d says Richard of St. Laurence. \u00a0\u201cFor,\u201d he adds, \u201cthe eyes of Mary are the eyes of a mother on her child to save it from falling, and if perchance it falls, to raise it up.\u201d<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus Christ one day allowed St. Bridget to hear Him thus addressing His Mother: \u201cMy Mother, ask Me what thou wilt!\u201d \u00a0And so is her Divine Son addressing Mary in Heaven, taking pleasure in gratifying His beloved Mother in all that she asks. \u00a0But what does Mary ask? \u00a0St, Bridget heard her reply: \u201cI ask mercy for sinners.\u201d \u00a0As if she had said: \u201cMy Son, Thou hast made me the Mother of mercy, the refuge of sinners, the advocate of the miserable; and now Thou tellest me to ask what I desire; what can I ask except mercy for sinners?\u201d
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAnd so, O Mary, thou art so full of mercy,\u201d says St. Bonaventure; \u201cso attentive in relieving the wretched, that it seems that thou hast no other desire, no other anxiety.\u201d \u00a0And as amongst the miserable, sinners are the most miserable of all, Venerable Bede declares \u201cthat Mary is always praying to her Son for them.\u201d
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEven whilst living in this world,\u201d says St. Jerome, \u201cthe heart of Mary was so filled with tenderness and compassion for men, that no one ever suffered so much for his own pains as Mary suffered for the pains of others.\u201d \u00a0This compassion for others in affliction she well showed at the marriage-feast of Cana, when, the wine failing, without being asked, remarks St. Bernardine of Sienna, she charged herself with the office of a tender comfortress: and moved to compassion at the sight of the embarrassment of the bride and bridegroom, she interposed with her Son, and obtained the miraculous change of water into wine.<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n II:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>

Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 \u201cTURN, THEN, THINE EYES OF MERCY TOWARDS US\u201d<\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>

II.\u00a0 OUR LADY\u2019S MERCY FILLS THE WHOLE EARTH<\/p>

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Meditaci\u00f3n vespertina:\u00a0\u00a0 AFTER THIS OUR EXILE SHOW UNTO US THE BLESSED FRUIT OF THY WOMB,\u00a0 JESUS!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

MARY, OUR SALVATION
<\/em><\/strong>SHE DELIVERS HER CLIENTS FROM HELL<\/p>

Meditaci\u00f3n I:
<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is impossible for a client of Mary, who is faithful in honouring and recommending himself to her, to be lost. \u00a0To some this proposition may appear, at first sight, exaggerated; but any one to whom this might seem to be the case I would beg to suspend his judgment, and, first of all, read what I have to say.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we say that it is impossible for a client of Mary to be lost, we must not be understood as speaking of those who would take advantage of this devotion that they might sin more freely. \u00a0And therefore, those who disapprove of the great praises bestowed on the clemency of this most Blessed Virgin, because it causes the wicked to take advantage of it to sin with greater freedom, do so without foundation, for such presumptuous people deserve chastisement, and not mercy, for their rash confidence. \u00a0It is, therefore, to be understood of those clients who, with a sincere desire to amend, are faithful in honouring and recommending themselves to the Mother of God. \u00a0It is, I say, morally impossible that such as these should be lost.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 St. Anselm says, \u201cit is impossible for one who is not devout to Mary, and consequently not protected by her, to be saved; so is it impossible for one who recommends himself to her, and consequently is beloved by her, to be lost.\u201d \u00a0St. Antoninus repeats the same thing and almost in the same words: \u201cAs it is impossible for those from whom Mary turns her eyes of mercy to be saved, so also are those towards whom she turns these eyes, and for whom she prays, necessarily saved and glorified.\u201d \u00a0Consequently the clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let us note particularly what these Saints say, and let those tremble who make but little account of their devotion to this Divine Mother, or from carelessness give it up. \u00a0They say that the salvation of those who are not protected by Mary is impossible. \u00a0Many others declare the same thing; such as Blessed Albert, who says, that \u201call those who are not thy servants, O Mary, will perish.\u201d \u00a0And St. Bonaventure: \u201cHe who neglects the service of the blessed Virgin will die in his sins.\u201d\u00a0 Again: \u201cHe who does not invoke thee, O Lady, will never get to Heaven.\u201d \u00a0And, on the 99th Psalm the Saint even says, \u201cnot only those from whom Mary turns her face will not save their souls, but there will be no hope of their salvation.\u201d \u00a0Before him, St. Ignatius the Martyr said, \u201cit is impossible for any sinner to be saved without the help and favour of the most Blessed Virgin; because those who are not saved by the justice of God are with infinite mercy saved by the intercession of Mary.\u201d \u00a0Some doubt as to whether this passage is truly of St. Ignatius; but, at all events, as Father Crasset remarks, it was adopted by St. John Chrysostom. \u00a0And in the same sense does the Church apply to Mary the words of Proverbs: All that hate me, love death \u2014 <\/em>(Prov. viii. 36), that is, all who do not love me, love eternal death. \u00a0For, as Richard of St. Laurence says on the words of the same book: She is like the merchant\u2019s ship <\/em>\u2014 (Prov. xxxi. 14), \u201call those who are out of this ship will be lost in the sea of the world.\u201d \u00a0Even the heretical OEcolampadius looked upon little devotion to the Mother of God as a certain mark of reprobation: and therefore he said: \u201cFar be it from me ever to turn from Mary.\u201d<\/p>

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\u21d1 \u00a0<\/a>CONTENIDO<\/a>
<\/em>\u21d0 TWENTY-FIRST <\/em>WEEK AFTER <\/em>PEN<\/em>TECOST<\/em><\/a>
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VOLUME IV – PART II, pp. 206-265 TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Morning Meditation:\u00a0 \u201cTHOU ART JUST, O LORD, AND THY JUDGMENT IS RIGHT\u201d By our sins long ago committed, and often since, we\u00a0have deserved hell.\u00a0 And do we understand what … Seguir leyendo <\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4884,"parent":0,"menu_order":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11276","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11430,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11276\/revisions\/11430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}