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FRIDAY IN PASSION WEEK THE SEVEN SORROWS St. Paul, the incomparable master, the great doctor of the infant Church, made Jesus Christ on the cross the delightful object of his love, the sweet subject of his discourses, the end of all his aspirations in this world, and the foundation of all his hopes in eternity. “I have judged myself,” he says, “to know nothing but my Jesus crucified; God forbid that I should ever glory in any other thing than in the cross of my Jesus, and think not that I have any other life than that of the cross; for I assure you that I so feel and behold everywhere the cross of my Savior, that by His grace I am altogether crucified to the world, and the world is entirely crucified to me.” Blessed is the soul which thus everywhere finds Jesus Christ crucified! – Consoling Thoughts of St. Francis de Sales