Chapter 1 – Section 3c – Of intellectual consideration – 2nd Of Christ Our Lord

 

Extracts from the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis de Ponte SJ

Chapter 1 – Section 3c – Of intellectual consideration – 2nd Of Christ Our Lord

We should take for the principal subjects of our mediation 3 classes of considerations which especially incite us to speak with God.

2^nd In the next place, consider certain truths pertaining to Christ Our Lord, with whom also thou art to speak; for He is thy God, and as man is also thy advocate: unless thou know Him, thou cannot speak familiarly with Him.

Moreover, He has Himself said: This is eternal life, to know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent [St John xvii, 3].

Hence, thou must now endeavour to gain a knowledge of thy Saviour, considering His infinite perfections, the Divine virtues of His glorious Soul, the different states, all showing such love and benevolence, in which He has manifested Himself to men.

Fix thy gaze upon Him:

Now in the manger as a little infant,

Now transfigured on Mount Thabor

Again, wounded and disfigured in every limb on Mount Calvary;

Lastly, glorious and triumphant in Heaven.

Make acts of faith in Him as thy Redeemer, thy Physician, advocate, protector, and the only one who can supply all thy needs; the only door by which we may enter heaven and ascend to the Father, to be united with Him and transformed into His likeness.

Lastly, let us see Him as the beginning and the crown of thy prayer; for in His name it is begun and in the same concluded; in it thou dost treat with the Father, through the mediation of the Son, concerning those things which the Son would have thee ask of the Father.