Lent Resources, Books, Meditations for the Season

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There are some fine featured books on Saints' Books for Lent.

Including, 'Preparation for Lent' and 'Meditations', both books of meditations that are perfect for the season.

A preview of their entirety can be found on Saints' Prayers in the Meditations section.

Books such as 'The Imitation of Christ' and on the subject of the Passion of Our Lord are also very good reading, at any time of year and especially this time.

In the morning it is a highly recommendable practice to spend at least a quarter of an hour meditating on the Passion of Our Lord. If you have not taken up this practice, a time to take it up is the present time.

Books of meditation such as the above, for example, St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori's, 'The Passion and the Death of Jesus Christ' are very worthwhile and helpful for meditating on the Passion daily.

Let's all have a very holy Lent.


'Begin in the morning, before leaving your room, by meditating, for a quarter of an hour, on the Passion of our Redeemer, and you will see that, all will go well with you, and that you will live far removed from sin.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'I shall conclude this subject with what St. Basil said to his monks: If, my children, we desire to raise the soul towards heaven, let us direct the eyes towards the earth. From the moment we awake in the morning, let us pray continually in the words of holy David: Turn away my eyes, that they may not behold vanity.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

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Meditations for the Holy Season of Lent
by a Member of the Society of Jesus

On the the Passion of Our Lord in General

1st Point. Jesus is the true Son of God. He is the holiest of men, the greatest of kings, the faithfulest of friends. He never injures any, but does good to all. And all the world have conspired against him, all the world have persecuted him. As he suffered for all men, so all men have made him suffer. Men and women of all ranks have contributed to his passion. Jews, Gentiles, priests, kings, soldiers, and people, men and women, and his own disciples even, have all put a hand to his cross, and added to his miseries. Are you not of the number? are you not the most cruel of his persecutors?

2nd Point. Jesus suffered every description of evil in his soul and body, mind and heart, memory and imagination, his honour and goods, his parents and friends; in his senses and in all his limbs! He was a man of sorrows, and I wish to be devoted to sensual pleasures! He suffered from all the world, and I wish to suffer from none! He suffered all imaginable evils, and I wish to suffer none! He suffered the worst of evils, and I wish for those only which are light! He suffered voluntarily, I suffer only what I cannot avoid!

3rd Point. Oh, my sweet Jesus! thy holy passion fills me with grief and confusion. It is a great source of grief to me to behold thee suffering for me! It is a source of great confusion to me not to be able to suffer for thee! Give me grace, at least, to suffer ordinary evils with patience, and, by thy divine aid, render me capable of supporting, from day to day, those more weighty and grievous afflictions which may visit me, and through which, as a fiery ordeal, I must pass.