1. _Places._ As I look at the middle picture I see it consists of numbers and numbers of small ones, each representing some place that is familiar to me--there is the house where I was born, there the school I attended, houses I have visited, hotels where I have stayed, gardens, playgrounds, lonely roads, walks on cliffs, villages, towns, churches, the sea-side, trams, omnibuses, trains, boats, bicycles, carriages, stations.... I am fascinated and cannot help looking still, though the variety and number are almost bewildering. Each picture is so familiar; some awaken sweet and precious memories, from some I quickly turn away my eyes. All can witness to my presence, how many can witness also to my sins? "Indeed the Lord is in this place, and _I knew it not_." (Gen. XXVIII. 16). That may to some extent be true and if so there is One who is always ready to say: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." _I_ know how much I knew, and the best thing, the only thing for me to do is to make an Act of Contrition. 2. _Persons._ I turn to the right hand panel and there are crowds and crowds of _faces_, each one familiar--father, mother, brothers, sisters, relations, servants, teachers, scholars, friends, enemies, priests, confessors, acquaintances ... what impression have I left upon each of these? If they could be called up and asked: "What did you think of so and so?" what would they have to say? They would have something, for I left _some_ impression--and yet _none_ of them know me as I really am. The three Persons of the Blessed Trinity have been near me _always_ and always observant. They really know me. What have _They_ to say? "If Thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand it?" (Ps. CXXIX. 3). This picture makes me sad! That is just what Our Lord wants from this meditation. Let me offer once more my heartfelt contrition and He will be glad that I had the courage to open the triptych.