It is God's will, as to mine understanding, that we have Three Manners of Beholding His blessed Passion. The First is: the hard Pain that He suffered,- with contrition and compassion. And that shewed our Lord in this time, and gave me strength and grace to see it.

For as long as He was passible He suffered for us and sorrowed for us; and now He is uprisen and no more passible, yet He suffereth with us.

The changing of His blessed Countenance changed mine, and I was as glad and merry as it was possible. Then brought our Lord merrily to my mind: Where is now an…

As much as He was most tender and pure, right so He was most strong and mighty to suffer.