{"id":10978,"date":"2025-09-17T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/?page_id=10978"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:51:25","slug":"daily-meditations-fourteenth-week-after-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/daily-meditations-fourteenth-week-after-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"DAILY MEDITATIONS: FOURTEENTH WEEK AFTER PENTECOST"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o matinal:\u00a0\u00a0ALL ENDS AND SOON ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The grass of the field which is to-day, and to-morrow is cast into the oven<\/em>. \u2014 (Matt. vi., 30).\u00a0 Behold, the goods of the earth are like the grass of the field<\/em>, which to-day is blooming and beautiful, but by the evening withers, and its flowers fade, and the next day it is cast into the fire!\u00a0 All flesh is grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field<\/em>.<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Behold, the goods of the earth are like the grass of the field, which to-day is blooming and beautiful, but by the evening withers, and its flowers fade, and the next day it is cast into the fire.\u00a0 This what God commanded the Prophet Isaias to preach: Cry.\u00a0 And I said: What shall I cry?\u00a0 All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field<\/em>. \u2014 (Is. xl., 6).\u00a0 Hence St. James compares the rich ones of this world to the flower of the grass: at the end of their journey through life they rot, and all their riches and grandeurs with them.\u00a0 The flower of the grass shall he pass away.\u00a0 For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways<\/em>. \u2014 (James i., 10, 11).\u00a0 They fade away and are cast into the fire, like the rich glutton, who made a splendid appearance in this life but afterwards was buried in hell.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let us, then, dearly beloved Christian, attend to the salvation of our souls, and to the acquisition of riches for eternity, which never ends; for everything in this world ends, and ends very soon.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When some great one of this world is in the full enjoyment of the riches and honours he has acquired, death shall come, and he shall be told: Take order with thy house; for thou shalt die, and not live<\/em>. \u2014 (Is. xxxviii., 1).\u00a0 Oh, what doleful tidings!\u00a0 The unhappy man must then say: Farewell, O world!\u00a0 Farewell, O my villa!\u00a0 Farewell, O my beautiful gardens!\u00a0 Farewell, relatives and friends!\u00a0 Farewell sports and balls!\u00a0 Farewell, festivities and banquets!\u00a0 Farewell, honours!\u00a0 All is over for me!\u00a0 There is no remedy: whether he will or not he must leave all.\u00a0 For when he shall die, he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him<\/em>. \u2014 (Ps. xlviii., 18).\u00a0 St. Bernard says that death produces a horrible separation of the soul from the body, and from all the things of this earth.\u00a0 Opus mortis, horrendum divortium<\/em>.\u00a0 To the great of this world, whom worldlings regard as the most fortunate of mortals, the bare mention of death is so full of bitterness that they are unwilling even to hear it mentioned; for their entire concern is to find peace in their earthly goods.\u00a0 O death!<\/em> says Ecclesiasticus, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions<\/em>. \u2014 (Ecclus., xli., 1).
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 O my Jesus I give Thee thanks for having waited for me and for not having called me out of this world in my sins.\u00a0 During the remainder of my life I will weep over my iniquities.\u00a0 I will love Thee with all my strength.\u00a0 I know I must die, and by Thy grace I will prepare to die a happy death.<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o II:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/strong><\/p>

Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 DANGERS TO SALVATION<\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>

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

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o noturna:\u00a0\u00a0CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Divine Priest, Jesus Christ, Who was both Priest and Victim, by the sacrifice of His life for the salvation of men completed the Sacrifice of the Cross and accomplished the work of the world\u2019s Redemption.\u00a0 By His death, Jesus Christ stripped our death of its terrors.\u00a0 Until then it was but the punishment of rebels; but by grace and the merits of our Saviour it becomes a sacrifice so dear to God that when we unite it to the death of Jesus, it makes us worthy to enjoy the same glory that God enjoys, and to hear Him one day say to us, as we hope: Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!<\/em> \u2013 (Matt. xxv., 21).
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thus death, which was an object of pain and dread, was changed by the death of Jesus into a passage from a state of peril and danger of hell, into one of security and of eternal blessedness, and from the miseries of this life to the boundless delights of Paradise.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore the Saints have ever regarded death with joy and desire, and no longer with fear.\u00a0 St. Augustine says that they who love the Crucified One \u201clive with patience and die with joy.\u201d\u00a0 And common experience shows that they who in life have been most troubled with persecutions, temptations, scruples, or other painful events are in death most comforted by Jesus Crucified, conquering with great peace of mind all the terrors and pains of death.\u00a0 And if it has sometimes happened that some of the Saints, as we read in their Lives, died in great fear of death, the Lord God permitted this in order to increase their merits; because the more painful the sacrifice, the more acceptable it was to God, and the more profitable to them for eternity.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, how much more bitter was death of old, before the time of Jesus Christ!\u00a0 The Saviour was not yet come, and men sighed for His coming: they waited for His promise, but they knew not when it would be fulfilled.\u00a0 The devil had great power upon earth; Heaven was closed to men.\u00a0 But after the death of the Redeemer, hell was conquered.\u00a0 Divine grace was given to souls, God was reconciled to men, and the Kingdom of Heaven was opened to all those who die innocent, or have expiated their sins by repentance.\u00a0 And if some who die in grace do not immediately enter Heaven, this only results from the faults of which they are not yet cleansed; and death merely bursts their bonds, in order that they may be free to unite themselves perfectly to God, from Whom they are far away in this land of exile.<\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o matinal:\u00a0 EARNEST LABOUR FOR ETERNAL SALVATION<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“No security is too great where Eternity is at stake,” says St. Bernard.\u00a0 We should, therefore, resolve: “I will save my soul, cost what it may!”\u00a0 Perish all things else \u2013 property, friends, even life itself, if I can but only save my soul!<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0To be saved it is not sufficient to profess to do merely what is absolutely necessary.\u00a0 If, for example, a person wishes to avoid only mortal sins, without taking any account of those which are venial, he will easily fall into mortal sins and lose his soul.\u00a0 He who desires to avoid only such dangers as are absolutely the immediate occasions of sin will most probably one day discover that he has fallen into grievous crimes and is lost.\u00a0 O my God, with what attention are the princes of this world served!\u00a0 Everything is avoided that can possibly give them the least offence for fear of losing their favour; but with what carelessness Thou art served!\u00a0 Everything is avoided that can endanger the life of the body is shunned with the greatest caution, while the dangers which threaten the life of the soul are not feared!
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0O my God, how negligently have I hitherto served Thee.\u00a0 Henceforth I will serve Thee with the greatest attention; be Thou my helper and assist me.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0O my brother, if God should act as sparingly with you as you do with Him, what would become of you?\u00a0 If He should grant you only the grace barely sufficient \u2013 would you be saved?\u00a0 You would be able to obtain salvation, but you would not obtain it; because in this life temptations frequently occur so violent that it is morally impossible not to yield to them without a special assistance from God.\u00a0 But God does not afford His special assistance to those who deal sparingly with Him: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly.<\/em> \u2014 (2 Cor. ix., 6).
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But, O God, Thou hast not dealt sparingly with me: while I have been so ungrateful towards Thee as to repay Thy many favours with offences, Thou, instead of chastising me, hast redoubled Thy graces towards me.\u00a0 No, my God, I will never more be ungrateful to The, as I have hitherto been.<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o II:
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.<\/strong><\/p>

Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 DANGERS TO SALVATION<\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>

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

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o noturna:\u00a0\u00a0CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The soldiers came, and broke the legs of the two thieves who were crucified with Jesus, but when they came to Jesus, they saw that He was already dead, and abstained from doing the same to Him.\u00a0 One of them, however, with a spear pierced His side, from which immediately came forth Blood and water. \u2014 (John xix., 34).
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0St. Cyprian says that the spear pierced straight into the Heart of Jesus Christ, and the same was revealed to St. Bridget.\u00a0 From which we understand that, as both Blood and water flowed forth, the spear, in order to strike the heart, must first have pierced the pericardium.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0St. Augustine says that St. John used the words opened the side<\/em>, because in the Heart of the Lord the way of life was opened, whence came forth the Sacraments by means of which we enter upon eternal life.\u00a0 Further, it is said that the Blood and water which came from the side of Jesus were figures of the Sacraments; the water, of Baptism, which is the first of the Sacraments; and the Blood, of the Eucharist, which is the greatest.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0St. Bernard further says that, by receiving this visible stroke, Jesus Christ wished to signify the invisible stroke of love by which His Heart was pierced for us.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0St. Augustine, speaking of the Eucharist, says that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to-day is not less efficacious before God than the Blood and water which flowed that day from the side of Jesus Christ.<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o 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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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o matinal:\u00a0 THE CERTAINTY OF BEING SAVED OR LOST<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o II:
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Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 <\/b><\/strong>THE EVIL EFFECTS OF A BAD HABIT\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u00a01.\u00a0 IT BLINDS THE UNDERSTANDING<\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o noturna:\u00a0\u00a0CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o matinal:\u00a0 THE UNCERTAINTY OF GRACE<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

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

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o II:
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Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 <\/b><\/strong>THE EVIL EFFECTS OF A BAD HABIT\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

2.\u00a0 IT HARDENS THE HEART<\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o noturna:\u00a0\u00a0CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o matinal:\u00a0 THE DESIRE OF GOD TO SAVE ALL MEN<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Eu te amei com um amor eterno<\/em>.\u00a0 And so God has from all eternity loved every human soul.\u00a0 It was for us and for our salvation He sent His only Son into the world to die upon the Cross.\u00a0 Alas, how often have I withdrawn myself from God and sold myself for a nothing to Satan, God’s enemy and my own!<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It is, indeed, amazing that man, a worm of the earth, should dare to offend His Creator and turn his back upon Him, by despising His graces after God has so favoured and loved him as to lay down His life to save him.\u00a0 But it is still more surprising that God, after having been thus despised by man, should seek after him, invite him to repentance and offer him pardon, as though God stood in need of us and not we of God.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0O Jesus, Thou seekest me, and I seek after Thee.\u00a0 Thou desirest me, and I desire only Thee.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0For Christ<\/em>diz o Ap\u00f3stolo, we beseech you, be reconciled to God<\/em>. \u2014 (2 Cor. v., 20).\u00a0 “And does God,” exclaims St. Chrysostom, “call thus upon sinners?\u00a0 And what does He ask of them?\u00a0 That they be reconciled, and in peace with Him.”
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My Redeemer, Jesus Christ, how couldst Thou have had so much love for me, who has had so often offended Thee?\u00a0 I detest all my offences against Thee; give me still greater grief, still greater love, that I may deplore my sins, not so much on account of the punishments I have deserved by them, as for the injury I have offered to Thee, my God, Who art infinitely good and amiable.<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o II:
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Leitura espiritual:\u00a0\u00a0THE EVIL EFFECTS OF A BAD HABIT\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

3.\u00a0 IT DIMINISHES SPIRITUAL STRENGTH<\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o noturna:\u00a0\u00a0CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0When considering the love of the Son of God for men, we should ever bear in mind that when He saw, on the one hand all men condemned because of sin, and on the other Divine Justice requiring a full and perfect satisfaction, He voluntarily offered Himself to make satisfaction for the offences committed by man, who was himself unable to offer such a satisfaction: He was offered, because it was his own will<\/em>. \u2014 (Is. liii., 7).\u00a0 And this humble Lamb gave Himself to the torturers, suffering them to lacerate His flesh, and to lead Him to death, without lamenting or opening His mouth, as it was foretold: He shall be brought as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, he shall not open his mouth<\/em>. \u2014 (Is. liii., 7).\u00a0 St. Paul writes that Jesus Christ accepted the death of the Cross to obey His Father.\u00a0 But let us not imagine that the Redeemer was crucified solely to obey His Father, and not with His own full will; He freely offered Himself to this death, and of His own will chose to die for man, moved by the love He bore him, as He Himself declares by St. John: I lay down my life; no man taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself<\/em>. \u2014 (John, x., 17-18).\u00a0 And He said that it was the work of the Good Shepherd to give His life for His sheep.\u00a0 And why was this?\u00a0 What obligation was there on the Shepherd to give His life for the sheep?\u00a0 Christ also hath loved us, and delivered himself for us<\/em>. - (Ef. v., 2).
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0This, indeed, our loving Redeemer Himself declared, when He said: And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to myself<\/em> \u2014 (John xii., 32), thereby showing the kind of death that He would die upon the Cross, as the Evangelist himself explains it: Now this he said, signifying what death he should die<\/em>. \u2014 (John xii., 33).\u00a0 On these words St. John Chrysostom remarks that He draws souls as it were from the hands of a tyrant.\u00a0 By His death He draws us from the hands of Lucifer, who, as a tyrant, keeps us enchained as slaves, to torment us after our death forever in hell.<\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o matinal:\u00a0 \u201cIF I AM LOST, I SHALL NOT BE LOST ALONE\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0What do you say?\u00a0 If you are lost, and are damned you will not be alone!\u00a0 But what consolation will the company of the wicked be to you in hell?\u00a0 O accursed sin, how it can blind men gifted with reason!<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 What do you say?\u00a0 If you are lost, and are damned, you will not be alone!\u00a0 But what consolation will the company of the wicked be to you in hell?\u00a0 Every condemned soul in hell weeps and laments, saying: Although I am condemned to suffer forever, oh, would that I might suffer alone!\u00a0 The wretched company which you will meet with there will increase your torments by their despairing groans and moanings.\u00a0 What a torment to hear even a dog howling all night long, or a child crying for hours, and not to be able to sleep!\u00a0 And what will it be to hear the yells and howlings of so many wretched souls in despair, who will continually torment one another with their dismal noises, and this, not for one night, nor for many nights only, but for all Eternity!
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Again, your companions will but increase the torments of hell by the stench of their burning carcasses.\u00a0 Out of their carcasses, says the Prophet Isaias, shall a stench arise<\/em>. \u2014 (Is. xxxiv., 3).\u00a0 They are called carcasses, not because they are dead, for they are alive to pain, but because of the stench they will give forth.\u00a0 Your companions will also increase the torments of hell by their numbers; they will be in that pit as grapes in the wine-press of the anger of God: He treadeth<\/em>, said St. John, the wine-press of the fierceness of the wrath of God the Almighty<\/em>. \u2014 (Apoc. xix., 15).\u00a0 They will be straitened on every side, so as to be unable to move hand or foot so long as God shall be God.<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o II:
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Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 THE MISERY OF RELAPSING INTO SIN<\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o noturna:\u00a0\u00a0CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Behold Jesus, then, presented by the Scribes and priest to Pilate as a malefactor, that he might judge Him and condemn Him to the death of the Cross; and see how they follow Him, in order to see Him condemned and crucified.\u00a0 Oh, marvellous thing, cries St. Augustine, to see the Judge judged!\u00a0 To see Justice condemned!\u00a0 To see life dying!\u00a0 And by what were these marvels accomplished except by the love which Jesus Christ bore to men?\u00a0 Christ hath loved us and delivered himself for us<\/em>.\u00a0 Oh, that these words of St. Paul were ever before our eyes!\u00a0 Truly then would every affection for earthly things depart from our heart, and we should think only of loving our Redeemer, reflecting that it was love which brought Him to pour forth all His Blood, to make for us a bath of salvation.\u00a0 Ele nos amou e nos lavou de nossos pecados em seu pr\u00f3prio sangue<\/em>. \u2014 (Apoc. i., 5).\u00a0 St. Bernardine of Sienna says that Jesus Christ from the Cross looked at every single sin of every one of us, and offered His Blood for every one of them.\u00a0 In a word, love brought the Lord of all to appear the vilest and lowest of all things upon earth.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“O power of love!” cries out St. Bernard; “The Supreme God of all is made the lowest of all!\u00a0 Who hath done this?\u00a0 Love, forgetful of its dignity, powerful in its affections!\u00a0 Love triumphs over God!”\u00a0 Love has done this, because, in order to make itself known to the beloved, it has brought the loving One to lay aside His dignity, and to do that alone which is to the advantage and pleasure of the beloved.\u00a0 Therefore, St. Bernard says that God, Who can be conquered by none, allows Himself to be conquered by the love He bore to men.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We must, moreover, bear in mind that whatever Jesus Christ suffered in His Passion, He suffered for each one of us individually.\u00a0 On which account St. Paul says: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered himself for me<\/em>. \u2014 (Gal. ii., 20).\u00a0 And what the Apostle said every one of us may say.\u00a0 Wherefore St. Augustine writes that each man was redeemed at such a price that each seems to be of equal value with God.\u00a0 The Saint also goes on to say: “Thou hast loved me, not as Thyself, but more than Thyself, since, to deliver me from death, Thou hast been willing to die for me.”<\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o matinal:\u00a0 THE HUMILITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN<\/strong><\/em><\/b><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jesus Christ said: Learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart<\/em>.\u00a0 As holy Mary was the first and most perfect disciple of Jesus Christ in the practice of all virtues, she was the first also in Humility, and merited to be exalted above all creatures.<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0“Humility,” says St. Bernard, “is the foundation and guardian of virtues,” for without humility no other virtue can exist in the soul.\u00a0 Should the soul possess all virtues, all will depart when humility goes.\u00a0 But, on the other hand, as St. Francis de Sales wrote to St. Jane Frances de Chantal, “God so loves humility that whenever He sees it He is immediately drawn thither.”\u00a0 This beautiful and so necessary virtue was unknown in the world; but the Son of God Himself came on earth to teach it by His own example, and willed that in this virtue in particular we should endeavour to imitate Him: Learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart<\/em>. \u2014 (Matt. xi., 29).\u00a0 Mary, being the first and most perfect disciple of Jesus Christ in the practice of all virtues, was the first also in that of humility, and by it merited to be exalted above all creatures.\u00a0 It was revealed to St. Matilda that the first virtue in which the Blessed Mother particularly exercised herself from her very childhood was that of humility.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The first effect of humility of heart is a lowly opinion of ourselves: “Mary had always so humble an opinion of herself, that, as it was revealed to the same St. Matilda, although she saw herself enriched with greater graces than all other creatures, she never preferred herself to any one.”\u00a0 Not indeed that Mary considered herself a sinner: for “humility is truth,” as St. Teresa remarks: and Mary knew that she had never offended God: nor was it that she did not acknowledge that she had received greater graces from God than all other creatures; for an humble heart always acknowledges the special favours of the Lord, to humble itself the more: but the Divine Mother, by the greater light wherewith she knew the infinite greatness and goodness of God, also knew her own nothingness, and therefore more than all others she humbled herself.\u00a0 “The most Blessed Virgin had always the majesty of God, and her own nothingness, present to her mind,” says St. Bernardine.\u00a0 As a beggar, when clothed with a rich garment, which has been bestowed upon her, does not pride herself on it in the presence of the giver, but is rather humbled, being reminded thereby of her own poverty; so also, the more Mary saw herself enriched, the more did she humble herself, remembering that all was God’s gift; whence she herself told St. Elizabeth of Hungary that “she might rest assured that she looked upon herself as most vile and unworthy of God’s grace.”\u00a0 Therefore St. Bernardine says that “after the Son of God, no creature in the world was so exalted as Mary, because no creature in the world ever humbled herself so much as she did.”<\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o II:
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Spiritual Reading:\u00a0 THE HUMILITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN<\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>

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Medita\u00e7\u00e3o noturna:\u00a0\u00a0CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>

Medita\u00e7\u00e3o I:
<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0St. Augustine says that Jesus Christ, having first given His life for us, has bound us to give our life for Him; and, further, that when we go to the Eucharistic table to communicate, as we go to feed there upon the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, we ought also, in gratitude, to prepare for Him the offering of our blood and of our life, if there is need for us to give them for His glory.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Full of tenderness are the words of St. Francis de Sales on this text of St. Paul: A caridade de Cristo nos pressiona<\/em>. \u2014 (2 Cor. v., 14).\u00a0 To what does it press us?\u00a0 To love Him.\u00a0 But let us hear what St. Francis de Sales says: “When we know that Jesus has loved us even to death, and that the death of the Cross, is not this to feel our hearts constrained by a violence as great as it is full of delight?”\u00a0 And then he adds: “My Jesus gives Himself wholly to me, and I give myself wholly to Him; I will live and die upon His breast, and neither death nor life shall ever separate me from Him.”
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0St. Peter, in order that we might remember to be ever grateful to our Saviour reminds us that we were not redeemed from the slavery of hell with gold or silver, but with the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, which He, the innocent Lamb, sacrificed for us upon the altar of the Cross.\u00a0 Great, therefore will be the punishment of those who are thankless for such a blessing.\u00a0 It is true that Jesus came to save all men who were lost; but what was said by the Venerable Simeon, when Mary presented the Child Jesus in the Temple is also true: Behold, this child is set for the fall and the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted<\/em>. \u2014 (Luke ii., 34).\u00a0 By the words for the resurrection<\/em> he expresses the salvation which all believers should receive from Jesus Christ, who by Faith should rise from death to the life of grace.\u00a0 But first, by the words he is set for the fall<\/em>, he foretells that many shall fall into a greater ruin by their ingratitude to the Son of God, Who came into the world to become a contradiction to His enemies, as the following words imply: This child is for a sign which shall be contradicted;<\/em> Jesus Christ was set up a sign, against which were hurled all the calumnies, the injuries, and the insults the Jews devised against Him.\u00a0 And this sign is contradicted not only by the Jews of the present day, who deny Him to be the Messias, but by those Christians who ungratefully return His love with offences, and neglect His commands.<\/p>

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<\/em>\u21d0 THIRTEENTH WEEK AFTER <\/em>PEN<\/em>TECOST<\/em><\/a>
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VOLUME IV – PART I, pp. 154-201 FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Morning Meditation:\u00a0\u00a0ALL ENDS AND SOON ENDS \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The grass of the field which is to-day, and to-morrow is cast into the oven. \u2014 (Matt. vi., 30).\u00a0 Behold, the … Continuar lendo <\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4884,"parent":0,"menu_order":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10978","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11062,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10978\/revisions\/11062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyofthemostholyredeemer.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}