MARY AND THE DEATH OF JESUS
1. The Last Words.
b) Time creeps on; the sufferings of Jesus keep mounting. But there is one particular pain which causes a special complaint from Him. I am thirsty. What would that torture of thirst be? And how would it be felt by His own Mother? Not only water, but the whole of Her blood would She willingly have given Him. But She must be resigned to see Him suffer and with Him She suffers. Those cruel executioners mock Him still, further they offer Him gall and vinegar to drink. But do you not also, if you search your heart, have to admit that what Jesus finds in it is not generous blood, but rather the bitter gall of ingratitude, the repulsive vinegar of lukewarmness, of coldness, of inconstancy.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
1. The Last Words.
b) Time creeps on; the sufferings of Jesus keep mounting. But there is one particular pain which causes a special complaint from Him. I am thirsty. What would that torture of thirst be? And how would it be felt by His own Mother? Not only water, but the whole of Her blood would She willingly have given Him. But She must be resigned to see Him suffer and with Him She suffers. Those cruel executioners mock Him still, further they offer Him gall and vinegar to drink. But do you not also, if you search your heart, have to admit that what Jesus finds in it is not generous blood, but rather the bitter gall of ingratitude, the repulsive vinegar of lukewarmness, of coldness, of inconstancy.
[Excerpted from 'MARIAN MEDITATIONS' Book by Rev. Dr. Ildefonso R. Villar, Salesian Philippine Province, Nihil Obstat; Imprimatur]
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