The Road to Calvary: Daily Meditations for Lent and Easter by St. Alphonsus Ligouri. Ash Wednesday

Adoramus Te Christe et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You O Christ, and we praise You! Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world! Kyrie, eleison The Road to Calvary Daily Meditations for Lent and Easter By St. Alphonsus Ligouri There are 46 total meditations for Lent, from Ash Wednesday, including Holy Week, through Holy Saturday. Meditation 1: Ash Wednesday The Value of Meditating on the Passion St. Bonaventure says that the one who desires to continually advance in virtue should meditate continually on the Passion - there is no practice more beneficial to the soul than frequent meditation on the sufferings of Jesus Christ “St. Augustine said that a single tear shed at rememberance of the Passion is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem or a year of fasting on bread and water.” Servant of God, Brother Bernard of Corlione, the Capuchin, not being able to read - his brother religious wanted to teach him - upon which he went to consult his crucifix, but Jesus answered him from the Cross, "What is reading? What are books? Behold, I am the book wherein you may continually read the love I have borne you.” Thomas Aquinas was one day paying a visit to Saint Bonaventure and asked him from what book he had drawn all the beautiful lessons he had written. Saint Bonaventure showed him the image of the Crucified, which was completely blackened by all the kisses that he had given it, and said, “This is my book whence I receive everything that I write; It has taught me what little I know.”