In this work, St. Alphonsus Liguori, an 18th-century Italian bishop and theologian, meditates on Christ’s Passion. The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ uses both scripture and revelations from saints to contemplate how Christ’s death on the cross shows His deep love for us.

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Excerpts from The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ by St. Alphonsus Liguori

”Jesus Christ could easily have obtained for us salvation without suffering, and in leading a life of ease and delight; but no, St. Paul says, having joy set before Him, He endured the cross.”

“The divine Word came into the world and took upon him human flesh in order to make himself loved of man, and therefore he came with such a longing to suffer for our sake, that he would not lose a moment in beginning to torment himself, at least by apprehension.”

“Hardly was he conceived in the womb of Mary, when he represented to his mind all the sufferings of his Passion; and, in order to obtain for us pardon and divine grace, he offered himself to his eternal Father to satisfy for us through his dolors all the chastisements due to our sins; and from that moment he began to suffer everything that he afterwards endured in his most bitter death.”