“Jesus laid in the tomb.”  Joseph and Nicodemus, with loving hands, detach His precious body from the Cross.  Whose arms so fit to receive it, as those which first bore Him in all His infantine loveliness in the stable of Bethlehem?  Have you a new tomb ready for Him in your heart?  Have you the fine linen of restored innocence, the sweet spices of virtues and good works, with which to embalm His body?  O Mary! I caused His sufferings and your pain, but obtain for me now so to live that His death may not have been in vain for me.