St. Alphonsus Liguori's The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ reading #2

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St. Alphonsus Liguori's The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ reading #2

"My child, I am truly the Mother of great sorrow. As I cast My eyes about your world, I see much taking place that is repeating the time of My Son and His great Sacrifice.
"I cry bitter tears, for I can only ask, My children, why have you allowed satan to take you on your present path? Did My Son give Himself in sacrifice for nothing? Have you forgotten your purpose for living upon earth?" - Our Lady of the Roses, March 22, 1975

(The following is an excerpt from the classic book, The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ, by St. Alphonsus Liguori.)

Oh, how exceedingly tender, loving, and constraining was that declaration of our Blessed Redeemer concerning His coming into the world, when He said that He had come to kindle in souls the fire of divine love, and that His only desire was that this holy flame should be enkindled in the hearts of men: I am come to cast fire upon the earth; and what will I but that it should be kindled? (Luke 12:49) He continued immediately to say that He was expecting to be baptized with the baptism of his own blood--not, indeed, to wash out His own sins, since He was incapable of sinning, but to wash out our sins, which He had come to satisfy by His sufferings: "The Passion of Christ is called baptism, because we are purified in His blood." And therefore our loving Jesus, in order to make us understand how ardent was His desire to die for us, added with sweetest expression of His love, that He felt an immense longing for the time of His Passion, so great was His desire to suffer for our sake. These are His loving words: I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized; and how am I straitened until it be accomplished.

O God, the lover of men, what more couldst Thou have said or done in order to put me under the necessity of loving Thee? And what good could my love ever do Thee, that Thou didst choose to die, and didst so much desire death in order to obtain it? If a servant of mine had only desired to die for me, he would have attracted my love; and can I then live without loving Thee with all my heart, my king and God, who didst die for me, and who hadst such a longing for death in order to acquire to Thyself my love?

"Arrogance, pride is always the beginning of the end. It is only in the simple hearts of man, the simple hearts, the child-like candor of an adult, that the truth will be found and the way. I am the way! No one shall come to the Father but through Me, for I am the way. All who deny My visit to your world, all who have not accepted Me as the Messiah, they are against Me, and as such, will seek to destroy all who uphold the truth." - Jesus, August 5, 1974

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