Meditations for Each Day of the Week': The Divine Life of Jesus

Sunday

The Divine Life of Jesus

in the Bosom of the Heavenly Father

THE LIFE OF JESUS IN THE Bosom OF His FATHER

Is FILLED with GLORY AND DELIGHT

0 JESUS, my Lord and my God, I contemplate, adore and glorify Thee in Thy divine life from all eternity in the bosom of the Eternal Father, before Thine Incarnation in the virginal womb of Thy Mother. What a holy life! How pure, divine, wonderful and filled with glory, greatness and delights! What joy to see Thee living, from all eternity, a life so filled with perfection, contentment and wonders! Blessed be Thou, 0 Father of Jesus, for having imparted such a life to Thy Wellbeloved Soul 0 Jesus, I offer Thee all the glory, love and praise Thou dost derive from the Father and the Holy Spirit throughout the eternity of Thy divine life. (1)."Meditations for Each Day of the Week" are taken from "Part Four' of The Kingdom ol Jesus.

THE CHIEF FUNCTION OF JESUS From ALL ETERNITY IS

To CONTEMPLATE AND LOVE His FATHER

0 Jesus, when I consider Thy divine and eternal life, I see that Thy chief function for all eternity is to contemplate, glorify and love Thy Father, to refer Thyself to Him as to Thy principle, to give Him Thy being, Thy life, Thy perfections and all that Thou shalt be forever, as gifts received from Him, to be employed in glorifying and loving Him, and to offer Him infinitely worthy praise and love. Blessed be Thou, 0 Jesus, for all these things. 0 Most Amiable Father, how I rej~oice to behold Thee so loved and glorified by Thy Son! I offer Thee all love and glory that Thou dost receive from Him during all eternity, by His divine life in Thy fatherly bosom before His Incarnation.

From ALL ETERNITY JESUS THINKS OF ME AND LOVES ME

0 Good Jesus, Thou hast expended all Thy divine life for my benefit. From all eternity Thou dost think of me, love me and offer me to the Father, and Thou dost offer Thyself also to Him, to come one clay upon earth to be made flesh, to suffer and die on earth for love of me. 0 Dearest Jesus, Thou hast loved me from all eternity, and I hardly know if I have yet begun to love Thee as I ought. Forgive me, my Saviour. From now on, and for all eternity, let me live but to Iove Thee!

Ejaculatory prayer:

"I have loved Thee with an everlasting love." In caritate perpetua dilexi te (Jer. 31, 3) - 17-

Monday

The Incarnation

Jesus Shows his Love; for his Father

In his Incarnation

0 JESUS, I adore Thee at the moment of Thy Incarnation, which is the first instant of Thy mortal life. I adore all the marvelous things that took place in Thee at that moment. What great accomplishments were effected in Thee and by Thee, in that blessed instant, in the eyes of the Father, the Holy S pirit , Thy sacred humanity, and Thy Blessed Mother! What thoughts, what affections, what love! How Thy holy soul in that instant devoted itself, before Thy Father's face~ to adore and glorify Him and sacrifice Thee entirely to His glory, and to accomplish all that He willed!

0 Good Jesus, I adore Thy first thoughts and Thy first acts of adoration, oblation, love and praise, which Thou didst offer to Thy Father at that time. How exalted and divine were the love and glory Thou gavest Him then! Truly Thou didst give Him infinitely more honor and love in that moment alone than all the angels and all men accorded Him in the five thousand years that preceded Thine Incarnation, or ever shall give Him for all eternity. 0 Father of Jesus, what satisfaction for my soul to behold Thee so loved and glorified by Thy Soul 0 Jesus, be Thou blessed, adored and glorified forever for the honor and love Thou didst give to Thy Father at the blessed moment of Thine Incarnation!

JESUS SHOWS His LOVE FOR MARY

IN His INCARNATION

0 Jesus, when I consider Thee in this mystery, I see by the light of faith that Thou dost entertain most exalted thoughts and great designs upon her in whom the Incarnation was accomplished, and that Thou dost indeed effect great and marvelous works in her. 0 Jesus, I adore the first thoughts, the first acts of love and movements of grace, of light and of eminent sanctity which Thou didst produce in Thy Blessed Mother at the moment of Thine Incarnation. So, too, do I adore the first acts of adoration, praise and love of the most admirable Mother for the Most Adorable Son. Blessed be Thou, 0 Jesus, Son of Mary, for all the wonders Thou didst work in Thy divine Mother by this stupendous mystery! Blessed be thou, 0 Mother of Jesus, for all the glory thou hast given thy Son in this same mystery! Unite me, I implore thee, to all the love and honor thou didst give thy Dear Son in the first instant of His life, and grant that I may share in thy peerless love for Him and in thy zeal for His glory.

JESUS SHOWS His LOVE FOR ME

IN His INCARNATION

0 Most Amiable Jesus, at the same instant that Thou didst look up to the Father, after the Incarnation, Thou didst also look upon me. Thou didst begin to think of Him, refer Thyself to Him and love Him and Thou didst likewise begin to think of me, to give Thyself to me and love me. At the very instant Thou didst begin to live, it was to live for me, to prepare and acquire for me most extraordinary graces, and to form plans for my salvation. From that very moment Thou didst plan and desire to create in me an image of the mystery of the Incarnation and to become incarnate in me, that is, to unite me to Thyself, and Thyself most intimately to me, both physically and spiritually by Thy holy grace and Thy divine sacraments, and then to fill me with