Ave Maria Meditations
Sweet Jesus, in order to clothe us again with the life of grace, You stripped Yourself of the life of Your body. The body which You stretched out on the wood of the holy Cross is like a lamb which has been sacrificed and which is shedding its blood from every part of its body. In Your Blood, You have created us anew to the life of grace.
Sweet Jesus, my soul ardently desires to be bathed and entirely submerged in Your Blood, since in Your Blood I find the source of all mercy; in Your Blood are clemency, fire, piety. In Your Blood, mercy abounds for our faults. In Your Blood, justice is satisfied and our hardness is melted; what is bitter becomes sweet and what is heavy becomes light.
And since all virtues reach maturity in Your Blood, O Christ, inebriate my soul, and engulf it in Your Blood, so that it will be adorned with real and solid virtues.
St. Catherine of Siena
