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and I compassionate thee from my inmost heart, when I
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call to mind the mournful desolation in which thou, most
faithful of friends, wast left by all thy friends; how thou
wast ruthlessly seized as a thief and a robber, and cruelly
bound, and driven towards thy death, scornfully mocked
by thine enemies, and assailed with insults and outrages;
and didst become as a worm and no man, the reproach of
men, and the outcast of the people. Who can meditate
without tears on the loving gentleness with which thou
wentest forth to meet thine enemies, as they came with
swords and with staves to seize thee and deliver thee to
death, even as a tender mother goes forth to meet the son
of her love; and how thou didst meekly resign thyself
into their cruel hands, to rescue them from the jaws of the
wolves of hell! While they so pitilessly smote thee, for
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every blow and for every buffeting thou didst impress a
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kiss of love on all the souls which should be saved
through thy Passion until the day of doom. Oh, how
great was thy love towards thine enemies, O most tender
Jesus, in that, even while they were cruelly scourging
thee, thou didst pour forth for them such availing prayer,
that many of them were converted unto thee! And when
they thrust the crown of thorns on thy most sacred Head,
thou didst weave into their crowns as many gems as
there were thorns in thine own. O most gentle Jesus, who
can think without an ardent love of thee on the amazing
love thou didst manifest to us most ungrateful sinners,
when thy sinless hands and feet were so inhumanly
nailed to the cross, and all thy limbs so painfully
stretched and dragged asunder that all thy bones might
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