Ladder to heaven…
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
–Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617)
Through the Cross…
The Lord accomplished our salvation by His death on the Cross: on the Cross He tore up the handwriting of our sins; through the Cross He reconciled us with our God and Father; and through the Cross He brought down upon us grace-filled gifts and all heavenly blessings.
–Saint Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894)
Our Lord sends the crosses…
Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Spiritual things…
Why is it that we have so little liking for spiritual things? This is because we love Jesus Crucified so little.
–Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
Read our Lord’s Passion constantly…
We should read our Lord’s Passion constantly; what great benefit we will gain by doing so. Even if you are as hard as stone, when you contemplate that He was sarcastically adorned, then ridiculed, beaten and subjected to the final agonies, you will be moved to cast all pride from your soul.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Christ suffered…
He suffered at the hands of the Gentiles and the Jews, of men and of women –an example being the maids who accused Peter. He suffered at the hands of princes and their officials, and at the hands of the ordinary people too. He suffered at the hands of relatives and friends and acquaintances, on account of Judas who betrayed him and of Peter who denied him. In short, Christ suffered as much as it is possible for man to suffer. Christ suffered at the hands of his friends who abandoned him, He suffered as blasphemies were hurled at him; his honor and self-esteem suffered from all the taunts and jibes; He was even stripped of his clothes, the only possessions he had. In his soul he felt sadness, emptiness and fear; in his body, the wounds and the cruel lashes of the whip.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
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