Road to Calvary
Beschreibung
With St. Alphonsus Liguori as your spiritual guide, The Road to Calvary: Daily Meditations for Lent and Easter will take you on the long difficult path Our Lord took to His death and crucifixion.
Drawing on the insights of the saints who have gone before him, Liguori adds his own insights into the events of the passion, death, and resurrection of the Lord so that you may truly enter the details of Christ''s suffering and ultimate victory over death. By diving into the details daily, The Road to Calvary will quench the spiritual hunger we long for during Lent.
He completes the Lenten journey with three magnificent meditations on paradise, for this is the goal of our earthly life. All of the saints have found rest and joy in the wounds Christ. Follow Christ to Calvary this Lent and find the rest and joy of the saints.
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- Lenten Meditations
- 1. The Value of Meditating on the Passion
- 2. The Love of Jesus Christ
- 3. Jesus Chose to Suffer (Part 1)
- 4. Jesus Chose to Suffer (Part 2)
- 5. The Principal End of the Passion
- 6. The Foolishness of God
- 7. Jesus Suffers from the Beginning of His Life
- 8. Jesus's Sufferings Compared to Ours
- 9. Jesus's Desire to Suffer for Us
- 10. Suffering with Patience
- 11. Choosing Mortification
- 12. Jesus's Desire to Die for Us
- 13. The Sacrament of Love
- 14. Jesus Annihilates Himself in the Holy Eucharist
- 15. Why Does God Love Us?
- 16. Jesus's Fear of Death
- 17. Jesus's Sorrow
- 18. The Malice of Sin
- 19. The Ignominies of Christ Crucified
- 20. Jesus Is Spat Upon
- 21. The Reproach of Men
- 22. The Cruelty of the Scourging
- 23. The Pulpit of the Cross
- 24. The Thirst of Jesus
- 25. The Insults Offered to Jesus Christ on the Cross
- 26. The Council of the Jews and the Treachery of Judas
- 27. The Sufferings of Jesus Were Extreme
- 28. Jesus's Interior Sufferings
- 29. The Desolate Life of Jesus Christ
- 30. Jesus Treated as the Last of Men
- 31. The Passion of Jesus Christ Is Our Consolation
- 32. Jesus Makes His Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem
- 33. Jesus Prays in the Garden
- 34. Jesus Is Apprehended and Led before Caiaphas
- 35. Jesus Is Led before Pilate and Herod
- 36. Jesus Is Scourged at the Pillar
- 37. Jesus Is Crowned with Thorns
- 38. Pilate Exhibits Jesus to the People
- 39. Jesus Is Condemned by Pilate
- 40. Jesus Carries the Cross to Calvary
- 41. Jesus Is Placed upon the Cross
- 42. Jesus upon the Cross
- 43. The Words Spoken by Jesus upon the Cross
- 44. Jesus Dies upon the Cross
- 45. Jesus Hanging Dead upon the Cross
- 46. Mary Present on Calvary
- Easter Meditations
- 1. The Joys of Heaven
- 2. The Soul That Leaves This Life in the State of Grace
- 3. The Happiness of Heaven
- 4. The Hope of Salvation
- 5. The Graces from the Passion
- 6. The Eternal Father's Love
- 7. The Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- 8. Jesus Crucified Is Our Only Hope
- Appendix
- Prayer to Jesus Crucified
- Prayer to Jesus
- The Clock of the Passion
