Saturday, August 22 : Saint Amadeus of Lausanne

There are two martyrdom species: one manifest, the other secret; One visible, the other hidden; One in the flesh, the other in the heart. (…) The martyrdom of the heart goes beyond the torments of the flesh. So the glorious virgin triumphed in this kind of suffering, all the more glorious as it was closer when, attached to the adorable cross of the Lord’s passion, she drew from the chalice, she drinks of His passion , watered in the torrent of pain, she could endure a pain forever unparalleled. She runs following Jesus not only with the smell of her perfumes, but in the abundance of her pain; Not only in the joy of consolations, but also in the overflow of suffering. Mother, she saw her son, the real Solomon, with the tiara of which she had crowned him and, herself crowned with a crown of affliction, she was following Him. She was standing with the cross (Jn 19,25) to consider (…) the very soft head of her son, anoint of oil with her companions, struck with a reed and crowned with thorns. She saw the most beautiful of the children of men who no longer had neither radiance or beauty. She saw despised and restored to the last rank He who is exalted above all peoples. She saw the saint of saints crucified with the scoundrels and the impious. She saw the eyes of this sublime man lowering himself, and the head of the one who supports the universe to lean, tilted on his shoulders, the very serene face of God wither, and vanish the beauty of his face.

Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) Daily Readings – rosary,team