Heart for man, and therefore the best to excite love for Him in the heart of man.
"Let Him," says St. Augustine, "be nailed with the nails of love in the center of thy heart, who, for love of thee, was nailed by the hard iron nails to the wood of the cross." And the Blessed Sacrament is the Sacrament of love. As to imitation, Our Lord practised all virtues at all times; but heroically so in His Passion, because in the most trying circumstances, particularly those virtues which we need most — patience, charity, forgiveness, the sweet silence, or the right word in the right way, resignation, and obedience to His Father's hard will unto death. He called the bitter cup compounded by His enemies "the chalice of His Father," and drank it, slowly, feeling all its bitterness, to the dregs. Sts. Chrysostom and Bonaventure put well this lesson of imitation taught us by Him in His Passion, when they say. Nothing gives the common soldier such courage in the fight as to keep his eyes fixed on Jesus Christ, his King, in the front, and bearing all the brunt of it." "The common soldier will glory in his little wounds if he keeps his eyes fixed on the great wounds which his King bore, and bears for love of him."
