"The contemplation of Our Lady of Compassion naturally leads us to consider both the Mother and the Son: the Son who suffered His Passion and the Mother who endured in her Heart what her Child suffered in His body. This book elaborates at length on the Passion of Our Lord, and offers considerations on His virtues and on the salvation which He granted to men of good will by this sublime means. The contemplation of the sorrows of Jesus and Mary is followed by a presentation on the nature of devotion to Our Lady of Compassion, and on the way in which throughout the history of the Church religious people have sanctified themselves and drawn strength and comfort by contemplating the Sorrowful Virgin. The book concludes with some devotional practices and shows what fruits well-disposed souls can derive from them, and can already serve as a basis for meditation. This is why it is punctuated with affections and prayers"--.