Chapter XLVII. Of another Way of Praying by Way of Meditation

YOU may also resort to another plan of praying and meditating. After you have attentively considered the afflictions of the Lord, and dwelt upon His cheerful acceptance of them, you may pass on from the greatness of His Travail and of His Patience to two other considerations—

The one, of His Merit; the other, of the Satisfaction and Glory which the Eternal Father derived from the perfect obedience of His Son in His Passion.

And bringing both of these things before His Divine Majesty, ask through their virtue the grace which you desire.

And this you may do, not only in each Mystery of our Lord's Passion, but in each separate act, whether interior or exterior, in each Mystery.