RECOMMENDED TODAY Meditations for Lent
Even three hundred years ago, believers found it difficult to sustain for forty days the proper Lenten spirit. That’s why even then, countless Christians turned to the writings of Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), whose great piety and simple eloquence won him renown as one of the greatest preachers of his time. From Bishop Bossuet’s sermons and spiritual writings, believers drew ever greater Lenten wisdom and strength.
Now translator Christopher Blum has selected from Bishop Bossuet’s voluminous works fifty brief but remarkably powerful meditations that complement the daily readings at Mass during the Lenten season, thus offering to us the perfect companion for a thoughtful and fruitful Lent.
If you read and meditate briefly on just one of them each day in Lent, I guarantee that this good French bishop’s eloquence will soon have you not merely remembering the events of Christ’s journey to His Crucifixion; it will have you spiritually walking with Him on that journey . . . which is precisely what we are called to do in Lent!
With Bossuet, this Lent you will find yourself saying, “O Jesus! I present myself to you to make my journey in your company. O my Savior, receive your traveler! Here I am ready, holding on to nothing. Let me go with You to the Father.”
That’s the fire that should burn in the heart of all Christians. This Lent, let Bishop Bossuet enkindle it in yours. Among the Meditations:
- God Alone Suffices
- Pray to God in Secret
- The Truth and the Life
- Tempted in the Desert
- The Sign of Jonah
- Love Your Enemies
- This Is My Beloved Son
- And You Will Be Forgiven
- The Wicked Tenants
- In Spirit and in Truth
- The Silence of Christ
- Priest, Prophet, and King
- Our Life, a Journey to God
- The Great Commandment
- I Was Hungry and You Fed Me
- The Love of God for Repentant Sinners
- Up to Jerusalem
- God, the Life of the Soul
- The Witness of the Baptist
- The Raising of Lazarus
- Jesus Is Persecuted
- The True Messiah
- The Anointing
- The Betrayal
- The Eucharist
- The Passion
- The Brevity of Life
- Washed of Our Sins
- A Sign of Contradiction
- No Man Ever Spoke Like This Man
- The Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem
- To Unite Ourselves with Christ
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- Sales Rank: #4874 in Books
- Published on: 2013-12-31
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .66″ h x
5.09″ w x
7.10″ l,
.51 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Even three hundred years ago, believers found it difficult to sustain for forty days the proper Lenten spirit. That’s why even then, countless Christians turned to the writings of Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), whose great piety and simple eloquence won him renown as one of the greatest preachers of his time. From Bishop Bossuet’s sermons and spiritual writings, believers drew ever greater Lenten wisdom and strength.
Now translator Christopher Blum has selected from Bishop Bossuet’s voluminous works fifty brief but remarkably powerful meditations that complement the daily readings at Mass during the Lenten season, thus offering to us the perfect companion for a thoughtful and fruitful Lent.
If you read and meditate briefly on just one of them each day in Lent, I guarantee that this good French bishop’s eloquence will soon have you not merely remembering the events of Christ’s journey to His Crucifixion; it will have you spiritually walking with Him on that journey . . . which is precisely what we are called to do in Lent!
With Bossuet, this Lent you will find yourself saying, “O Jesus! I present myself to you to make my journey in your company. O my Savior, receive your traveler! Here I am ready, holding on to nothing. Let me go with You to the Father.”
That’s the fire that should burn in the heart of all Christians. This Lent, let Bishop Bossuet enkindle it in yours. Among the Meditations:
- God Alone Suffices
- Pray to God in Secret
- The Truth and the Life
- Tempted in the Desert
- The Sign of Jonah
- Love Your Enemies
- This Is My Beloved Son
- And You Will Be Forgiven
- The Wicked Tenants
- In Spirit and in Truth
- The Silence of Christ
- Priest, Prophet, and King
- Our Life, a Journey to God
- The Great Commandment
- I Was Hungry and You Fed Me
- The Love of God for Repentant Sinners
- Up to Jerusalem
- God, the Life of the Soul
- The Witness of the Baptist
- The Raising of Lazarus
- Jesus Is Persecuted
- The True Messiah
- The Anointing
- The Betrayal
- The Eucharist
- The Passion
- The Brevity of Life
- Washed of Our Sins
- A Sign of Contradiction
- No Man Ever Spoke Like This Man
- The Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem
- To Unite Ourselves with Christ
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Recommended for Lent
By R. R. Soseman
Lent is not everyone’s favourite season. This has been true for many centuries. Still, Lent is a necessary season in which we are purify ourselves, through the grace of God, and learn to follow our Lord more closely.Bishop Bossuet realized that Lent was difficult three centuries ago, and preached meditations to encourage his faithful followers. Many of these sermons and some other writings have been recently translated and helpfully compiled by Dr. Christopher Blum into a handy day by day guide, which you may follow through this holy season of penance.Although baroque French may sometimes seem difficult to the average reader, Dr. Blum employs practical, accessible English and has selected material which will provide you with a short, but substantial, thought or two for each day of Lent!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
I can’t wait for Lent so I can read all the meditations!
By Stuart Dunn
Meditations for Lent by Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet is the companion book to Meditations for Advent. I was not familiar with this author’s name, so I did some research and found out that he was a French bishop who lived from 1627 to 1704. He was known for his sermons, and some say that he was a better orator than St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom. Reading that statement blew my mind. These are two of the most well-known and influential saints of Western and Eastern Christendom, respectively, and some people think he was a better orator than him. WOW!In this book, you will find a daily meditation starting with Ash Wednesday and ending with Easter. At the end of the book, you will also find two extra meditations, one for the Solemnity of the Annunciation and one for the Solemnity of St. Joseph. I appreciate that as these are two very important Feast Days in the Church, which should be Holy Days of Obligation. I admit that I did not read every meditation in this book before writing this review. I didn’t want to rush through the meditations, and I also wanted them to be fresh for Lent this year. The ones I did read though were very thought-provoking, and it made me anxious for Lent to start so I could read them all.I would like to provide you with a sample from one day, so you can see how great these meditations are. Here is a quote from Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent, which won’t be read this year as St. Joseph’s Solemnity has a higher rank in feast day hierarchy. Referring to James and John’s mother asking for her sons to sit next to Jesus in Heaven, Jesus rebukes them and says, “Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” Bishop Bossuet elaborates, “You speak of glory, and you are not thinking about what must be suffered to gain it. Then he explains these sufferings to them by two metaphors, by that of the bitter cup that must be drunk and by the bloody baptism that must be accepted. To swallow every sort of bitterness, to be suffering to the point of having one’s body submerged, as in baptism: this is the price of glory.” This really made me stop, think, and reflect on my spiritual life. How willing am I to suffer?For other thought-provoking meditations like this, you must pick up Meditations for Lent. It will definitely help provide you with a deeper and more-fruitful Lenten season. I can’t wait to finish the whole book! This book was provided to me for free by Sophia Institute Press in exchange for an honest review.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
This is one of a series .
By The Owl
I purchased two others. They are really wonderful books for prayers and meditations for the seasons they are prepared for. Wonderful to own and to use.
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