There are countless ways to approach meditating on Christ's Passion and on our Redemption. More than thirty very powerful and insightful approaches are available for you on Joseph Karl Publishing's instructional webpage Meditating on Christ's Passion.
Why meditate on Christ's Passion? Doing so is an excellent Way to become more intimate with the Love of your eternal life, a Way that is very pleasing to Jesus.
Our Savior longs for your love in return!
Spend some time every single day meditating on His Passion.
Here's a new lesson, a short one, just for you.
BEGIN WITH THE CHRIST CHILD IN A MANGER
Approach meditating on Christ's Passion through a tiny Baby in a manger.
Our Infant Savior has come, for you.
Already He suffers, for you.
Kneel before the Divine Child in the manger and worship your Lord and God.
Do you notice the Ways in which Baby Jesus is already pouring forth His love upon humanity?
What are some of those Ways.
Already, the Divine Infant who is not even able to walk has begun the journey along the Way of the Cross.
You, too, can begin following Him along the Way of Sacrificial Love from your beginning.
You should; you must.
Give yourself to Jesus completely; love Him and honor Him, all the days of your life.
THE MANGER AND A CROWN OF THORNS
Join Jesus in the manger as He begins traveling along the Way of Sacrificial Love. See Him cradled by a bed of straw. The straw intersects and forms many crosses beneath His Sacred Back, which three decades later is brutally shredded at a Pillar as the lashes intersect to form crosses all over His Sacred Body.
Jesus is then mocked and crowned with thorns that intersect to form many more crosses.
Finally, our sweet and gentle Jesus is placed not in a manger filled with straw crosses but on a Cross, Himself covered with crosses, where He continues pouring out His love and mercy as evil takes on sacrificial love, the most powerful force in the universe.
TWO PARALLEL ROADS
Satan followed Jesus, but did not travel along the Way of Sacrificial Love.
He chose the way of self love, the way to eternal perdition, instead.
Both arrived on Calvary. Jesus had already said, "This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22:19).
The devil said, "Save thyself, come down from the cross." (Mark 15:30).
Jesus said, "Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43) and "Behold thy Mother!" (John 19:27).
SACRIFICIAL LOVE
Sacrificial love is the most powerful force in the universe. Sacrificial love is so strong that the bonds formed by it cannot ever be broken and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.
Allow sacrificial love to bind you to Jesus on the Cross.
Allow sacrificial love to bind your soul to God, forever.
FIGHT EVIL WITH GOOD
Evil was defeated by a humble, gentle, and kind Man covered with crosses, Who offered and continues to offer us love, forgiveness, salvation, sanctification, and His Most Holy Mother.Satan joins each one of us as we follow Jesus along the Way of the Cross, the Way to God and to heaven.
Be sure you remain on Christ's road, the Way of Sacrificial Love, and stay off the way of self love which will lead to your soul's perdition.
We defeat evil when we live, love, serve, forgive, and patiently suffer in imitation of Christ, the crosses of redemptive suffering carved into our flesh as we hold back nothing so together with Jesus, we can offer the Eternal Father everything.
Discover and then keep rediscovering the one, holy, Catholic, apostolic, and pro-life church and the majestic full expression of Christianity as established by its very Founder, Jesus Christ.
He is so in love with you!
© Joseph Karl Publishing/Michele Bondi Bottesi
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THE POWERFUL DEVOTION TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS
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To learn more about the Work of Reparation through the Devotion to the Holy Face,
which our Lord, Jesus Christ called "the most beautiful work under the sun,"
visit: Work of Reparation Through the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus
Please share the information with others.
God is at work in you!!
