Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady
Mother St. Paul
Read by David S. Ingram
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 |