Meditations

Lent 2020

  • Lent day 2: the value of adversity

    The Twelfth Chapter: the value of adversity (excerpt from The Imitation of Christ – Thomas Kempis) “IT IS good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer…

  • Lent Day 1: Ash Wednesday: litany of humility

    Litany of Humility O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.From the desire of being esteemed,*Deliver me, Jesus.From the desire of being loved…From the desire of being extolled …From the desire of being honored …From the desire of being praised …From the desire of being preferred to others…From the desire of being consulted …From…