First Meditation Of Our Savior's Passion ~ Lucy Herbert
BLOEMAERT, Abraham
The Last Supper (detail)
1635
I. Meditation.
CONSIDER that the Son of God, the evening before he suffered and died, in token of his infinite love, and to perpetuate the memory of his death and passion, left his body and blood, with his
whole divinity, to be received by us in the Holy Eucharist. How does the greatness of his love, and his desire of being
continually remembered by us, appear in
this mystery? When lovers part, they
give each other some tokens to refresh the
memory; so our Savior instituted this
Divine Sacrament, that in his absence it might be a remembrance of his Holy
Passion and Sacred Person; therefore when
he instituted it he said. Every time you do
this, do it in remembrance of me, that is, to
remember how much I loved you; how
much I valued you; and how much I suffered for you.
Thus his motive, in establishing this
Holy Table, was purely, that by this stupendous food, and daily unbloody sacrifice, he might continually renew the memory of his precious death.
Lucy Herbert
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