Thought for the Day – 22 February – Of How Sensible Things Aid Us to Meditate on the Incarnate Word in the Mysteries of His Life and Passion (Part Two)

Thought for the Day – 22 February – The Spiritual Combat (1589) – Dom Lorenzo Scupoli OSM (c1530-1610)

“None shall be crowned who has not fought well.” 2 Tim 2: 5

XXII: … Of How Sensible Things Aid Us
to Meditate on the Incarnate Word in the
Mysteries of His Life and Passion
(Part Two)

“The same may be said of other similar things.

+++ Let the taste of wine, or other liquid, remind you of your Lord’s vinegar and gall.

+++ If sweet perfumes refresh you, think of the ill odour of the dead bodies which were around Him on Calvary.

+++ While dressing, recollect that the Eternal Word clothed Himself with human flesh that He might clothe you with His Divinity.

+++ When undressing, remember Christ, Who was stripped of His garments, to be Scourged and Crucified for you.

+++ If you hear the shouts and cries of a multitude, think of those hateful words: “Away with Him, away with Him! crucify Him, crucify Him! ” which sounded in His Divine Ears.

+++ At each stroke of the clock, think of that deep sorrow and heaviness of heart which Jesus was pleased to endure in the Garden, as the foreboding and horror of His approaching Death and Passion began to fall upon Him; or imagine to yourself those heavy blows which nailed Him to the Cross.

+++ On any occasion of grief or sorrow which presents itself, whether your own or another’s, reflect that all these things are as nothing, compared to the inconceivable anguish which oppressed, pierced and mangled the Soul and Body of thy Lord!”

Dom Lorenzo Scupoli

PART ONE:
https://anastpaul.com/2024/02/21/thought-for-the-day-21-february-of-how-sensible-things-aid-us-to-meditate-on-the-incarnate-word-in-the-mysteries-of-his-life-and-passion-part-one/