St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ~tmm
🎚SAML= Hail, Jesus, our Love, and Mary, our hope !
🧖🏽♀️tmm=Help us hang on tight to you Jesus, Blessed Mary and Holy St. Joseph, a strong three ply cord rope
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Hasten Divine assistance to help us cope
🎚SAML= “O riven Heart! O Love for me now crucified!
🎚SAML= Give to my soul repose within Thy wounded side.”
🧖🏽♀️tmm= As I must loving choose abide
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Forever my resting place to reside
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus.
🎚SAML= Lo, we are on Calvary!
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Where Jesus gave up His life ever so freely
🎚SAML= made the theatre of divine love,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Come enter in for a second hand experience, do you need a push or a shove?
🎚SAML= where a God dies for us in a sea of sorrows.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= So that we might have much better tomorrows
🎚SAML= When Jesus had arrived there,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= You could be sure that all in love would certainly not be fair
🎚SAML= they violently strip off his garments cleaving to his torn flesh,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Yes, before one’s eyes they begin to mesh
🎚SAML= and cast him on the cross.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= To be looked upon and considered to be as dross
🎚SAML= The Divine Lamb stretches himself out on this bed of death,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= My goodness, with what hatred He is met
🎚SAML= presents his hands to the executioners,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= No one or nothing standing in the way that deters
🎚SAML= and offers to the Eternal Father the great sacrifice of his life for the salvation of men.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= A remedy to bridge the great chasm caused by sin, no costlier a way could there have been
🎚SAML= Behold, now they nail him to the cross and raise him on it.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Life ebbs out of Him bit by bit
🎚SAML= Look, my soul,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Sin is serious, it wields on our dear Lord a grievous toll
🎚SAML= on thy Saviour,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= See the intense sufferings under which He minute by minute have to atrociously labor
🎚SAML= who, fastened by three hard nails,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Even a whole life of suffering for us, in comparison, exceedingly pales
🎚SAML= hangs from the cross,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Tightly bound, unable to even twist or toss
🎚SAML= where he can find neither room nor rest.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Mightily put to the test
🎚SAML= At one time he leans on his hands,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= But all over His body excruciating pains together bands
🎚SAML= at another on his feet;
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Shooting pains are felt, radiating merciless in a heartbeat
🎚SAML= but where he leans,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= No relief possible anywhere, it seems
🎚SAML= there the pain is increased.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= All, so that one day we might, whomsoever wills, be able to rejoice and enjoy the heavenly banquet feast
🎚SAML= O my Jesus! and what a bitter death is this which Thou diest?
🧖🏽♀️tmm= But cometh on it’s heel will be the Resurrection, when thou thus riseth
🎚SAML= I see written over the cross,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= And surely it’s a big gain for us from His great loss
🎚SAML= Jesus of Nazareth,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= About to undergo pain and suffering, culminating in a very cruel death
🎚SAML=King of the Jews.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Ushering in what comes as Good News
🎚SAML= But except this title of scorn,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Not so in time, as it’ll be one of comfort for those who may cry or mourn
🎚SAML= what token dost Thou show of being a king?
🧖🏽♀️tmm=For those who aren’t blind but can see, your hidden Divine royalty is shown in everything
🎚SAML= Ah, indeed,
🧖🏽♀️tmm- The Martyr of martyrs whose Precious Blood will become the Great Seed
🎚SAML= this throne of tortures,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Liken to body scorchers
🎚SAML= these hands pierced with nails,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Where pain miserably trails
🎚SAML= this head transfixed,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Cowering ideas are nixed
🎚SAML= this flesh all torn,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Feeling quite worn
🎚SAML= may well make Thee known for a king,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Absolutely for all, those in truth, peaceful consenting
🎚SAML= but a king of love.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Drawing down many graces from above
🎚SAML= I draw near,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= As love removes the barrier of fear
🎚SAML= then,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Kisses to thee I send
🎚SAML= with tenderness,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= And sheer loveliness
🎚SAML= to kiss these wounded feet.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= As afterwards, our glances so lovingly meet
🎚SAML= I embrace this cross,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Wrapped up in love, so much to be gained from thy loss
🎚SAML= where Thou, made a victim of love,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= No proof of what You were ever guilty of
🎚SAML= wouldst die a sacrifice for me.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Ever so willingly
🎚SAML= Ah, my Jesus,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= What a great price you paid, not throwing us under the bus
🎚SAML= what would have become of me if Thou hadst not satisfied the divine justice ?
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Sinking and plunging without end into the everlasting dark abyss.
🎚SAML= I thank Thee,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Wholeheartedly
🎚SAML= and I love Thee.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Sweet Jesus, my all in all, oh so profoundly
MEDITATIONS ON THE PASSION OF JESUS CHRIST”: The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus, by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
I.
Lo, we are on Calvary! made the theatre of divine love, where a God dies for us in a sea of sorrows. When Jesus had arrived there, they violently strip off his garments cleaving to his torn flesh, and cast him on the cross. The divine Lamb stretches himself out on this bed of death, presents his hands to the executioners, and offers to the Eternal Father the great sacrifice of his life for the salvation of men. Behold, now they nail him to the cross and raise him on it. Look, my soul, on thy Saviour, who, fastened by three hard nails, hangs from the cross, where he can find neither room nor rest. At one time he leans on his hands, at another on his feet; but where he leans, there the pain is increased.
O my Jesus! and what a bitter death is this which Thou diest ? I see written over the cross, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. But except this title of scorn, what token dost Thou show of being a king ? Ah, indeed, this throne of tortures, these hands pierced with nails, this head transfixed, this flesh all torn, may well make Thee known for a king, but a king of love. I draw near, then, with tenderness, to kiss these wounded feet. I embrace this cross, where Thou, made a victim of love, wouldst die a sacrifice for me. Ah, my Jesus, what would have become of me if Thou hadst not satisfied the divine justice ? I thank Thee, and I love Thee.
🎚SAML= Hail, Jesus, our Love, and Mary, our hope !
🧖🏽♀️tmm=Help us hang on tight to you Jesus, Blessed Mary and Holy St. Joseph, a strong three ply cord rope
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Hasten Divine assistance to help us cope
🎚SAML= “O riven Heart! O Love for me now crucified!
🎚SAML= Give to my soul repose within Thy wounded side.”
🧖🏽♀️tmm= As I must loving choose abide
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Forever my resting place to reside
The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus.
🎚SAML= Lo, we are on Calvary!
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Where Jesus gave up His life ever so freely
🎚SAML= made the theatre of divine love,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Come enter in for a second hand experience, do you need a push or a shove?
🎚SAML= where a God dies for us in a sea of sorrows.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= So that we might have much better tomorrows
🎚SAML= When Jesus had arrived there,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= You could be sure that all in love would certainly not be fair
🎚SAML= they violently strip off his garments cleaving to his torn flesh,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Yes, before one’s eyes they begin to mesh
🎚SAML= and cast him on the cross.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= To be looked upon and considered to be as dross
🎚SAML= The Divine Lamb stretches himself out on this bed of death,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= My goodness, with what hatred He is met
🎚SAML= presents his hands to the executioners,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= No one or nothing standing in the way that deters
🎚SAML= and offers to the Eternal Father the great sacrifice of his life for the salvation of men.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= A remedy to bridge the great chasm caused by sin, no costlier a way could there have been
🎚SAML= Behold, now they nail him to the cross and raise him on it.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Life ebbs out of Him bit by bit
🎚SAML= Look, my soul,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Sin is serious, it wields on our dear Lord a grievous toll
🎚SAML= on thy Saviour,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= See the intense sufferings under which He minute by minute have to atrociously labor
🎚SAML= who, fastened by three hard nails,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Even a whole life of suffering for us, in comparison, exceedingly pales
🎚SAML= hangs from the cross,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Tightly bound, unable to even twist or toss
🎚SAML= where he can find neither room nor rest.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Mightily put to the test
🎚SAML= At one time he leans on his hands,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= But all over His body excruciating pains together bands
🎚SAML= at another on his feet;
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Shooting pains are felt, radiating merciless in a heartbeat
🎚SAML= but where he leans,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= No relief possible anywhere, it seems
🎚SAML= there the pain is increased.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= All, so that one day we might, whomsoever wills, be able to rejoice and enjoy the heavenly banquet feast
🎚SAML= O my Jesus! and what a bitter death is this which Thou diest?
🧖🏽♀️tmm= But cometh on it’s heel will be the Resurrection, when thou thus riseth
🎚SAML= I see written over the cross,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= And surely it’s a big gain for us from His great loss
🎚SAML= Jesus of Nazareth,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= About to undergo pain and suffering, culminating in a very cruel death
🎚SAML=King of the Jews.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Ushering in what comes as Good News
🎚SAML= But except this title of scorn,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Not so in time, as it’ll be one of comfort for those who may cry or mourn
🎚SAML= what token dost Thou show of being a king?
🧖🏽♀️tmm=For those who aren’t blind but can see, your hidden Divine royalty is shown in everything
🎚SAML= Ah, indeed,
🧖🏽♀️tmm- The Martyr of martyrs whose Precious Blood will become the Great Seed
🎚SAML= this throne of tortures,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Liken to body scorchers
🎚SAML= these hands pierced with nails,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Where pain miserably trails
🎚SAML= this head transfixed,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Cowering ideas are nixed
🎚SAML= this flesh all torn,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Feeling quite worn
🎚SAML= may well make Thee known for a king,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Absolutely for all, those in truth, peaceful consenting
🎚SAML= but a king of love.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Drawing down many graces from above
🎚SAML= I draw near,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= As love removes the barrier of fear
🎚SAML= then,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Kisses to thee I send
🎚SAML= with tenderness,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= And sheer loveliness
🎚SAML= to kiss these wounded feet.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= As afterwards, our glances so lovingly meet
🎚SAML= I embrace this cross,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Wrapped up in love, so much to be gained from thy loss
🎚SAML= where Thou, made a victim of love,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= No proof of what You were ever guilty of
🎚SAML= wouldst die a sacrifice for me.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Ever so willingly
🎚SAML= Ah, my Jesus,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= What a great price you paid, not throwing us under the bus
🎚SAML= what would have become of me if Thou hadst not satisfied the divine justice ?
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Sinking and plunging without end into the everlasting dark abyss.
🎚SAML= I thank Thee,
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Wholeheartedly
🎚SAML= and I love Thee.
🧖🏽♀️tmm= Sweet Jesus, my all in all, oh so profoundly
MEDITATIONS ON THE PASSION OF JESUS CHRIST”: The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus, by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
I.
Lo, we are on Calvary! made the theatre of divine love, where a God dies for us in a sea of sorrows. When Jesus had arrived there, they violently strip off his garments cleaving to his torn flesh, and cast him on the cross. The divine Lamb stretches himself out on this bed of death, presents his hands to the executioners, and offers to the Eternal Father the great sacrifice of his life for the salvation of men. Behold, now they nail him to the cross and raise him on it. Look, my soul, on thy Saviour, who, fastened by three hard nails, hangs from the cross, where he can find neither room nor rest. At one time he leans on his hands, at another on his feet; but where he leans, there the pain is increased.
O my Jesus! and what a bitter death is this which Thou diest ? I see written over the cross, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. But except this title of scorn, what token dost Thou show of being a king ? Ah, indeed, this throne of tortures, these hands pierced with nails, this head transfixed, this flesh all torn, may well make Thee known for a king, but a king of love. I draw near, then, with tenderness, to kiss these wounded feet. I embrace this cross, where Thou, made a victim of love, wouldst die a sacrifice for me. Ah, my Jesus, what would have become of me if Thou hadst not satisfied the divine justice ? I thank Thee, and I love Thee.