Meditation on the Passion

Compiled from various sources, with an introduction by Fr Reginald Walsh, reprint of the 1922 edition. Among the many subjects proposed by the Church to us for mental prayer, there is none more profitable than the sublime mystery of Calvary. For even where everything is supremely holy—namely, in the actions of Him Who is the way, and the truth, and the life—the Passion is the culmination of sanctity, the highest exercise of virtue, the greatest cause of merit. Hence devout meditation on it produces most abund­ant fruit in souls. And for this reason, Saints and Doctors of the Church—those who are specially enlightened, those who spoke from experience, those who are our best guides in the spiritual life—with one accord praise and glorify it... A Member of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who, as Mistress of Novices for about thirty years, had gained great experience in the formation of religious as well as in the varied requirements of conventional life, proposed by means of thi