Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady


Read by David S. Ingram

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Jesus Christ, yesterday and to-day, the same also for ever. (Heb. xiii. 8.) His salvation extends to all generations. My salvation shall endure for ever, and My righteousness shall not fail. (Isaias li. 6.) Also He says: My words shall not pass away. (Matt. xxiv. 35.) 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. 1.) 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, re-enacted before your eyes. It is the process called in modern philosophy "visualisation." These Meditations are composed on the Ignatian plan of visualising what Our Lord did, said, and suffered. Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it. (Luke xi. 28.) 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. 51), and in their measure to fulfil the teaching of the Teacher of all nations. (Matt. xxviii. 19.) - (Summary by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.) (4 hr 1 min)

Chapters

Preface 2:14 Read by David S. Ingram
Prayers Before and after Meditation 2:40 Read by David S. Ingram
Immaculate! 7:30 Read by David S. Ingram
Mary's Birthday 6:14 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Presentation in the Temple 9:19 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Marriage 7:32 Read by David S. Ingram
Hail Mary! 8:37 Read by David S. Ingram
Mary's First Word. ("How shall this be done?") 6:43 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Second Word. ("Behold the Handmaid of the Lord") 6:49 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Third Word. (Her Salutation to Elizabeth) 7:35 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Fourth Word. (The Magnificat) 6:34 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Silence 6:27 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Expectation 6:34 Read by David S. Ingram
The Stable 6:11 Read by David S. Ingram
The Circumcision of her Son 5:17 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Purification 8:25 Read by David S. Ingram
Wise Men and Babes 6:43 Read by David S. Ingram
Egypt 9:32 Read by David S. Ingram
Mary's Fifth Word. ("Son, why hast Thou done so to us?") 7:11 Read by David S. Ingram
Nazareth 9:56 Read by David S. Ingram
Mary's Sixth Word. ("They have no wine") 6:46 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Seventh Word. ("Whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye") 5:45 Read by David S. Ingram
"Who is My Mother?" 6:05 Read by David S. Ingram
The Fourth and Fifth Dolours. (Meeting Jesus with His Cross, and The Crucifixio… 8:03 Read by David S. Ingram
The Sixth and Seventh Dolours. (The Taking down from the Cross and The Burial) 7:37 Read by David S. Ingram
The First Glorious Mystery 6:09 Read by David S. Ingram
The Second and Third Glorious Mysteries 8:19 Read by David S. Ingram
Mary's Exile 8:55 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Death 7:00 Read by David S. Ingram
Her Tomb 5:35 Read by David S. Ingram
"Who is She?" (The Fourth Glorious Mystery) 6:41 Read by David S. Ingram
Mary's Coronation. (The Fifth Glorious Mystery) 8:28 Read by David S. Ingram
Salve Regina 18:25 Read by David S. Ingram