Excerpt from Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady Jesus christ, yesterday and today, the same also for ever. (heb. Xiii. His salvation extends to all generations. My salvation shall endure for ever, and My righteousness shall not fail. (isaias li. Also He says: My words shall not pass away. (matt. Xxiv. He is the Teacher of all times, and that as well by His actions as by His words, by what He said and by what He did. It was His to do and to teach. (acts i. It is ours, ours in this twentieth century, to listen to what He says, and to mark what He does. It is ours to hear Him and to see Him, spiritually. That we do by reading of His gospel, by listening to sermons, and very particularly by meditation, or by what St Ignatius calls contemplation of the mysteries of His life. TO contemplate in the Ignatian sense is to make yourself present at some scene Of our Saviour's life and behold it all, as it were, te-enacted before your eyes. It is the process called in modern philosophy visualisation. These Meditations are com posed On the Ignatian plan of visualising what Our Lord did, said, and suffered. Blessed are they who hear the word of G01) and keep it. (luke xi. Blessed are they who take pains thus to hear what their Saviour says, to contemplate and visualise what He does. They are the persons most likely, with Mary, to keep all these words in their heart (luke ii. And in their measure to fulfil the teaching of the Teacher of all nations. (matt. Xxviii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.