SadhanaOriental Meditation and Christian Prayer
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[17] Contemplating on a scene in the Bible led by St. Ignatius-3 (Passion)
※St. Ignatius puts the focus on every scene of the Passion in contemplating on the Passion of Christ. Here is the specific way to contemplate on two early scenes. In this method, it is instructed that most parts are done in the same way, except the [First Prelude] through the [Third Prelude], which are done differently. The two contemplations (the first and second contemplations) are originally done separately, but they are put together here for the sake of convenience. The following is the side-by-side description of the first two contemplations.
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【Preparatory Prayer】(Common to the first and second contemplations)
(Do the same as in the contemplation on incarnation.)
《The First Contemplation: How Christ Our Lord Went From Bethany To Jerusalem To The Last Supper Inclusively》
【Second Prelude】
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《Second Contemplation; From The Supper To The Garden Inclusively》
【First Prelude】 【Second Prelude】
【Third Prelude】 |
(The following procedure is common to the first and second contemplations.)
【First Point】
The first Point is to see the persons of the Supper, and, reflecting on myself, to see to drawing some profit from them.
【Second Point】
The second, to hear what they are talking about, and likewise to draw some profit from it.
【Third Point】
The third, to look at what they are doing, and draw some profit.
【Fourth Point】
The fourth, to consider that which Christ our Lord is suffering in His Humanity, or wants to suffer, according to the passage which is being contemplated, and here to commence with much vehemence and to force myself to grieve, be sad and weep, and so to labor through the other points which follow.
【Fifth Point】
The fifth, to consider how the Divinity hides Itself, that is, how It could destroy Its enemies and does not do it, and how It leaves the most sacred Humanity to suffer so very cruelly.
【Sixth Point】
The sixth, to consider how He suffers all this for my sins, etc.; and what I ought to do and suffer for Him.
【Colloquy】
It is to be noted, as was explained before and in part, that in the Colloquies I ought to discuss and ask according to the subject matter, that is, according as I find myself tempted or consoled, and according as I desire to have one virtue or another, as I want to dispose of myself in one direction or another, as I want to grieve or rejoice at the thing which I am contemplating; in fine, asking that which I more efficaciously desire as to any particular things. And in the way I can make one Colloquy only, to Christ our Lord, or, if the matter or devotion move me, three Colloquies, one to the Mother, another to the Son, another to the Father.
※ In the course of continuing contemplation on the Passion, St. Ignatius asks us to apply internal and spiritual five senses as continued from the contemplation on incarnation. Follow the detailed description in section [15] as to how to apply the five senses.