Our Blessed Lord's sufferings and death were voluntary; "He was offered because it was His own will." "I lay down My life . . . . No man taketh it away from Me: but I lay it down of Myself, and I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again."
It will be a most meritorious act of virtue, if you, when dying, conform your will perfectly to the will of God, and surrender your soul in voluntary sacrifice, in union with the death of Jesus Christ.
Meditations on Christian Dogma, Volume 1
The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, 1961
