How we meditate on the Passion of Christ

How we meditate on the Passion of Christ

"Heart of stone into hearts of flesh"With tender love and intimateMeditate who he is and why he wanted to be put to death to rescue us from eternal death. Let him start your heart of stone and put you a heart of flesh and so stay a prisoner of your love.Let us realize that we have been saved at the price of the Blood of the Lamb. Had God sent an angel to save us, we should be grateful, but our salvation has cost him dearly, he would not trust it to anything or anyone but himself. He and He alone has done. How lovingly loved us! How much love makes us so great condescension of our Father God.Consider who you are You who are beloved by God. Only God loves you with an everlasting love (cf. Jer 31.3). Loves as the apple of their eyes. We must recognize our poverty, we are an unholy creature, but immensely loved by God. We are people full of sins, often we become enemies of our Creator and Savior. "You can hardly find anyone who wants to die for a friend innocent," says St. Paul, but Jesus Christ our redeemer willingly and lovingly surrender his life for each one of us. Jesus Christ willingly surrender his life for you, often you become your own enemy. For you, a sinner, "the righteous for the unrighteous" (1 Peter 3.18). He died in the hands of sinners, to become the enemy into a friend of his, because he is the friend who never fails to become the sinner just, exiled king. What should we do for Christ who died for us, miserable sinners? How can we con-sagrar our hearts to this world, forgetting God, offending our Creator and Savior? If our soul is yours because He created it, redeemed it, the purified, washed with His precious blood, how can we forget this friendly and Holy Redeemer?Deepens, sees where God has rescued you. From what depths of filth you out your salvation. How many times have you been on the brink of death? He has rescued you out of love. You were on the brink of hell, carrying the weight of your sins and in danger of losing eternal happiness about to consume you in the fire that never dies. Jesus Christ to save you from this danger, took your place and you bought them, not with ephemeral goods, gold, silver, money, wealth, material goods, but at the price of your precious blood (cf. 1 Peter 1.17 to 21). Is not it enough to love Him with deep love and generous? Is He to case your God and your Creator, who made you and established you? Moreover, is not He who saved you? (Cf. Deuteronomy 32.1 to 12).How has your salvation cost the Son of God and God Himself! How, how, how! To save us wanted to come down from the top of the throne of heaven to the earth becoming a "man" in the pure womb of the Virgin Mary, to become flesh, is annihilated and becomes our slave to save us. Have many physical and moral pains to make you happy. Generously combat against your enemies, giving their lives for you on the battlefield, covered with wounds, blood, salivasos reproaches and insults but raised and now lives immortal and glorious eternity in the Father's Kingdom. Kingdom belonged to him before the creation of the world. Can you doubt his love? Can you deny your love who loved you on end? They exclaimed loudly: Yes Lord I love you, I love you my Lord, I love you are my fortress, my refuge, my savior, my rock, my eternal life! All my life, my strength, my mind, my soul and my heart is for You from now on.Fix your mind: deep admirationIn the whole universe and in our daily lives there are many objects, images, events that surprise us with certain demand and claim our attention. We dive into a deep trance and were "in-diosamos". However, none so profound, admirable and sublime as the Passion of the Son of God. It is necessary that we set our minds on that event with a profound admiration.What show, what can be more extraordinary event that God dying on the cross for my salvation? Who do you admire and not exceed the excess of love for us to give his life for ours? Is not amazing patience with such travail for thy love? Who is not ecstatic when considering the indignity with which it is addressed the God of glory and love?Who can contemplate without wonder the union of these two terms: the God-Man, and Man of Sorrows: as a man accustomed to suffering (cf. Isaiah 53.2-5). In heaven adored by the angels and all the heavenly spirits, and here on earth spat upon, beaten, abused, and crucified by the creatures in the sky sitting upon the throne of infinite greatness, and on earth, rooted to the gibbet of the cross! Up there, absorbed in an endless sea of ​​delight, and down here in a deluge of blood and tears which washed, purified and cleansed us our trespasses and beautified, embellished and we won us eternal life.Practice this way of praying constantly, watching the events before written. Fix your mind and immerse yourself in a deep admiration and attain high levels of evangelical perfection. Try to awaken your faith and love, and raise your spirit within you exclaiming: Oh great! The immortal is mortal! The impossible possible! The sovereign power in weakness, the eternal, dying!Sometimes cries along with the saints: O Lord! Who are you and who am I? Is it possible that the Creator of the entire universe for the creature dies, the Lord by the slave, the All for nothing? Oh dear, be amazed by the beauty of my God! Oh incomprehensible greatness, to what end has come your annihilation! Oh Jesus! What I love is you, who has led to such extreme suffer and suffer for me? Lord! How great are your plans impenetrable, are sublime and I do not understand. No understanding can understand! There is nobody in the entire universe that can explain such a sublime praise or gift of your love, that's why I have only God! silence, admiration and deep contemplation to adore and worship. Your cross will always be for me the ultimate test of your love and your mercy and therefore the most admirable of all the manifestations of your greatness and your love.Madly in love with your love - tenderness and compassionNow consider and sympathize with all the instruments that were used in the Passion of our Redeemer: The spear that pierced his heart, causing blood shall flow from his side and water (cf. John 19:31-37) twine and disciplines with which he struck to tear the meat and bring forth a torrent of blood that has cleansed. The crown of thorns pierced the most holy temples who thought only of love. The nails that pierced his hands extended only to bless, to heal and raise the fallen. The nails that moved his feet that were only used to go on the roads by establishing the Kingdom of God ...Fix your eyes on the multitude of his wounds and fill yourself with tender compassion. Behold the streams of blood that they sprout, you spit the saliva and disfigure her beautiful face, fixed on the bitter taste of gall and vinegar they gave drink to quench their thirst, and finally heard the terrible experience of abandonment and our beloved Maestro total experiment for a moment: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Remember finally that those who suffer horrible torment is innocent, is the Son of God is the King of Glory.So full of love, admiration and compassion as incomprehensible mysteries, my Lord I bow to your sacred plants, at the foot of your cross sacred to bathe, purify, and cleanse me with your Holy embellecerme Precious Blood poured out of my price redemption. Fall on me and all mankind that divine stream of irrigation and make us more and more lovers of Jesus and recognizers of our sins and deep purpose of amendment on us daily to preserve the beautiful gift of salvation.