Excerpt from the book Meditations for all the Days of the Year - Let us adore Jesus Christ condemned to death at the tribunal of Pilate; let us, in this mystery, admire a mystery of love. Men thought that they were only carrying out their own hatred; they were carrying out the designs of God; they were seconding the love of the Father, giving up to death for us His well-beloved Son; they were seconding the love of the Son, who was glad to die, first, in order to save us; second, to teach us, by His example, to maintain meekness and equanimity amidst the unjust judgments of the world of the trials sent us by Providence.