Road to Calvary, Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Meditation 9: First Thursday of Lent

Jesus's Desire to Suffer for Us

Adoramus Te, Christe, et benedicimus Tibi - We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You!

Quia per Sanctam Crucem Tuam redemisti mundum - because by Your Holy Cross You have redeemed the world!

Kyrie eléison - Lord have mercy!

➕➕➕“(Liguori, per the Duay Rheims) I am come to cast fire upon the Earth; and what will I but that it should be kindled? I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized; and how am I straightened until it be accomplished? - (another translation, as narrated in the podcast) I came to cast fire on the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how eagerly I desire It to be accomplished!”

- Luke 12:49 - 50

Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He should pass out of this world to the Father, having loved His own… He loved them to the end. - John 13:1