MEDITATIONS

In all troubles, and temptations of this life, we must always have recourse unto prayer, as it were to an holy anchor, by virtue whereof, the burden of tribulation shall either be taken quite away from us: or else we shall have strength given us, to be able to bear it: which is a far greater grace.
Venerable Louis of Granada

~MORNING MEDITATIONS~

HERE FOLLOW THE FIRST SEVEN MEDITATIONS FOR the seven days of the week, in the mornings.

Monday Morning

Of our Saviors washing of his Apostles feet: And of the institution of the most blessed Sacrament of the Altar
Of the most blessed Sacrament of the Altar: and of the causes wherefore it was instituted

Tuesday Morning

Of the prayer of our Savior in the Garden: And of his apprehension
How our Savior was apprehended
Of those that do spiritually bind the hands of our Savior Christ

Wednesday Morning

Of the presentation of our Savior before Annas: Caiphas: Herod: and Pilate: And of our Saviors whipping at the Pillar
Of the troubles and vexations that our Savior suffered the night before his Passion: And of the denial of St. Peter
How our Savior was brought before king Herod, and mocked, and accompted for a fool by him, and his courtiers
Of the cruel whipping of our Savior at the pillar

Thursday Morning

How our Savior was crowned with thorns: How Pilate said of him to the people, Ecce homo: And how he bare the Cross upon his shoulders
Of those words of the Gospel, Ecce homo
How our Savior carried the Cross upon his shoulders

Friday Morning

Of the mystery of the cross: And of those seven words which our Savior spake upon the Cross
A contemplation upon the mystery of the Cross
How our Savior was nailed upon the Cross
Of the compassion the son had upon his mother, and the mother upon her son, hanging upon the Cross
Of the doctrine that may be learned at the foot of the Cross
What patience we ought to have in all troubles and adversities, following the example of our Savior Christ

Saturday Morning

Of the piercing of our Saviors side with a spear: Of his taking down from the Cross: Of the pitiful lamentation of our blessed Lady: and of our Saviors burial
How our Savior was taken down from the Cross
The pitiful lamentation of the blessed virgin Mary
A declaration why the blessed virgin Mary and all just persons are afflicted in this present transitory life with divers adversities, and tribulations

Sunday Morning

Of the descending of our Savior into Limbus Patrum: Of the Resurrection of his holy Body: Of his appearing first to our blessed Lady, and afterwards to St. Mary Magdalen, and to the disciples
Of the Resurrection of the body of our Savior
How our Savior after his Resurrection appeared to the holy virgin his blessed mother

~NIGHT MEDITATIONS~

HERE BEGIN OTHER SEVEN MEDITATIONS for the same seven days in the nights. And although these Meditations be placed in the second place, yet are they first to be used in the order of exercise: Forsomuch as with them they must first begin, that are but newly converted to the service of almighty God.

Monday Night

Of the knowledge of ourselves: And of our sins
The first treatise: Of the consideration of sins
Of the multitude of sins, that thou hast committed in thy former life
Of the sins, and defects, that a man may fall into after he is come to the knowledge of almighty God
Of the accusation of a mans own conscience: And of the abhorring and contempt of himself

Tuesday Night

Of the miseries of this life
The second treatise: Of the miseries of mans life
Of the shortness of this life
Of the uncertainty of our life
Of the frailty of our life
Of the mutability of this life
Of the deceitfulness of our life
Of the miseries of mans life
Of the last mystery of man: Which is death
What profit may be taken of the foresaid considerations

Wednesday Night

Of the hour of death
The third treatise: Of the consideration of death
Of the uncertainty of the hour of death: And what a grief it is at that time to depart from all things of this life
Of the horror and loathsomeness of our grave
Of the great fear and doubt the soul hath at the hour of death, what shall happen unto it after it is departed
How we come to understand hereby the errors and blindness of our life past
Of the terror of the dreadful accompt we must make at the hour of our death of all our life past
Of the Sacrament of extreme unction, and of the agony of death
How filthy and loathsome the body is after it is dead, and of the burying of it in the grave
Of the way that the soul taketh after it is departed out of the body: And of the dreadful judgement and sentence that shall be given upon it at that time

Thursday Night

Of the general day of judgement
The fourth treatise: Of the consideration of the general day of judgement
How rigorous the day of judgement shall be
Of the terrible signs, that shall go before the day of the general judgement
Of the end of the world: And of the Resurrection of the dead
Of the coming of the Judge: Of the matter of the judgement: And of the witnesses and accusers that shall be there against the wicked

Friday Night

Of the pains of hell
The fifth treatise: Of the consideration of the pains of hell
Of two kinds of pains that be in hell
Of the torments of the inward senses, and powers of the soul
Of the pain, which is termed by the divines poena damni, that is, the pain of loss of almighty God
Of the particular pains of the damned in hell
Of the eternity of the pains of hell

Saturday Night

Of the everlasting glory, and felicity of the kingdom of heaven
The sixth treatise: Of the consideration of the glory of Paradise
Of the goodly beauty and excellency of the place
Of the second joy, that the soul shall have in the kingdom of heaven, which is the enjoying of the company of the Saints
Of the third joy, that the soul shall have in the kingdom of heaven: which is the enjoying of the clear vision of almighty God
Of the fourth joy, that the soul shall have in the kingdom of heaven: which is the enjoying of the glory of the body
Of the fifth joy in the kingdom of heaven: which is the everlasting continuance of the glory and felicity of the Saints

Sunday Night

Of the benefits of almighty God
The seventh treatise: Of the consideration of the benefits of almighty God
Of the benefit of Creation
Of the benefit of Conservation
Of the benefit of Redemption
Of the benefit of Vocation
Of the particular benefits that almighty God bestoweth upon us

DEO GRATIAS