Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith #244569

I. From this principle which has been proposed, 13 evidently deduced, that as the persons are different who meditate the Passion of Christ our Lord, so the ends and scopes are also diferent which they desire in meditating them, every one aiming at that affection and spiritual fruit, which is conformable to the state of his soul, and to the way by which he walks: that is to say, either to purge and purify himself from his sins and disordered passions; or to adorn himself with heroic virtues; or to unite himself to Almighty God, with fervent affections of love and charity, taking for a means to attain to all this.