Stimulus Divini Amoris: That is, The Goad of Divine Love
Translated by B. Lewis
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CHAPTER I HOW THAT A MAN OUGHT WILLINGLY TO MEDITATE UPON THE PASSION OF CHRIST, AND HOW PROFITABLE THE MEDITATION THEREOF IS
HOW THAT A MAN OUGHT WILLINGLY TO MEDITATE UPON THE PASSION OF CHRIST, AND HOW PROFITABLE THE MEDITATION THEREOF IS
i. RUN, O ye nations, up and down, and wonder at the love of God towards you, and at your blindness and wickedness towards Him. For if the Son of God would inseparably be united to the nature of man, by how much more ought your soul to be inseparably united to Him? And if the Son of God would with so great fervour of charity thus unite most base ashes to Himself, how much more earnestly ought every one to open his heart for the receiving of Him with the greatest devotion that may be? How mad is that soul that neglects to do this, and would rather adhere to base and corruptible things! For the Son of God did not assume flesh that man might adhere unto flesh, but as He, being in flesh, afflicted His flesh, and contemned all things belonging to the flesh (His soul always cleaving unto God His Father), even so ought man to mortify his flesh, and raise himself up to heavenly things.
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