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The Lord goes into free passion. We also need to descend to Him. This is the duty of everyone who confesses that by the power of the passion of Christ he has become what he now is, and who still hopes to receive something so great and glorious that no one can even imagine. How to descend? Thought, compassion. Follow the path of the suffering Lord in your thoughts, and with your meditation extract from everything such ideas as could strike the heart and bring it into a sense of the suffering endured by the Lord. In order for the latter to happen more successfully, one must make oneself suffer through a sensitive reduction in food and sleep, and an increase in the labor of standing and kneeling. Do everything that St. does. Church, and you will be a good helper for the Lord to suffer. You might be interested in: