Reflection Paper About Meditation
PERFECT REDEMPTION
Certain moments from the Passion of Christ have been selected for meditation in the SORROWFUL MYSTERIES of the Holy Rosary. In them we remember and compassionate the sufferings of the LORD Jesus, thereby entering into the Divine Will, in which everything is actively present. If we have the grace to enter into His Will, we act and participate in the interior acts and sufferings of our LORD, which are present and in action at that very moment. In them we are able to repeat His life within us and to grow in His likeness, and to pour upon everyone the infinite value, merits and effects of His Passion.
Therefore, when we contemplate these moments in the heart and try to relive them in daily living, they open our minds to understand the mystery of why the LORD Jesus Christ suffered and died for us. When we meditate on them, we should be moved to sorrow for the sins which nailed the LORD Jesus to the cross. We should be moved to repent of these sins, and to turn our backs on sin so that we can walk from the cross as new persons. A deep meditation on the Passion of the LORD Jesus helps us to see the effects of our sins and moves us to leave sin behind. Above all we get an opportunity to
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