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1. Meditations on the Scourging
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2. Second Sorrowful Mystery
The Scourging at the Pillar
Pilate’s next move was to take
Jesus and have him scourged
Fruit of the Mystery: Purity
Grace of mortifying our senses

3. 1. Sacrificial victim

4. 1. Sacrificial victim
God has placed upon
Him the iniquities of us
all. Christ substituted
Himself voluntarily for
us as a sacrificial victim
in order to pay our
debt, and to restore
divine life to us.
Alonso Cana 1601-1667.
The flagellation of Christ.
National museum of Art. Bucharest

5. 2.* To heal us
He took all the
pain because He
loved us, and
wanted to heal
us of our sins,
and of all the
diseases of the
body, mind and
soul.
Caravaggio, Flagellation of Christ. 1607

6.  “Human nature is slow, coarse and uneducated;
and if it is not cultivated and softened, it gives no
fruit in season, and on account of its evil
inclinations, will never of itself become fit for the
most loving and sweet interactions with the highest
Good. Therefore it must be shaped and reduced by
the hammer of adversities, refined in the crucible
of tribulation, in order that it may become fit and
capable of the divine gifts and favors and may
learn to despise terrestrial and fallacious goods ,
wherein death is concealed.” (Mary of Agreda)

7. 3. To set us free: By the scourging He received, He
wants to set us free, of all types of oppression and bondage.
The spirit of
the Lord is
upon me. He
has sent me
to proclaim
release to the
captives, and
to let the
oppressed
go free.
Caravaggio, The Flagellation of Christ, 1607.

8.  Thereupon those ministers of Satan, with many
others, brought Jesus our Savior to the place of
punishment, which was a courtyard or enclosure
attached to the house and set apart for the torture of
criminals in order to force them to confess their
crimes. It was surrounded by a low, open building,
surrounded by columns, some of which supported the
roof, while others were lower and stood free. To one of
these columns, which was of marble, they bound
Jesus very securely; for they still thought Him a
magician and feared his escape.
 Thus the Lord stood uncovered in the presence of a
great multitude and the six torturers bound Him
brutally to one of the columns in order to chastise Him
so much the more at their ease. Then, two and two at
a time, they began to scourge Him with such inhuman
cruelty, as was possible only in men possessed by
Lucifer as were these executioners. (Mary of Agreda. The
Mystical City of God)

9. 2. Spirit of Penance

10. 4. Offer me your sufferings.
“Let these children of mine
offer me all their sufferings,
all their misunderstandings,
all their difficulties. This is
the greatest gift that they
can make to me.
Nothing comforts my
Sorrowful Heart more than
a suffering which is offered
to me out of love.”
(Gobbi)
Guido Reni, Flagellation of Christ. 1640-42

11. 5.**Spirit of Penance. “I ask that they offer
their sufferings in a
spirit of reparation, of
purification and of
sanctification.
I myself personally and
lovingly take care to give
consolation in suffering
and, if it be in the will of
the Lord, to offer the gift
of healing.” (Gobbi)
Vercelli, Flagellation of Christ, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

12. 5. Take the blows
5A. Take the blows Christ, You who had
done no wrong willingly
bore the punishment of
a common criminal for
our sake.
Help us to take the
blows that fall our way,
whether or not we think
we deserve them.
“I fear no blows, because
God is my shield.”
(St. Faustina Kowalska)
Vercelli, Flagellation of Christ, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

13. 5B. Spirit of penance
By this mystery, let us
ask for the grace of the
spirit of prayer and
penance, by which the
world will be saved.
Prayer and penance
purify our souls and
sanctify them.
Vercelli, Flagellation of Christ, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

14.  The first two scourged the innocent Savior with hard and
thick cords, full of rough knots, and in their sacrilegious
fury strained all the powers of their body to inflict the
blows. This first scourging raised in the deified body of the
Lord great welts and livid tumors, so that the sacred blood
gathered beneath the skin and disfigured his entire body.
Already it began to ooze through the wounds. The first two
having at length desisted, the second pair continued the
scourging in still greater emulation; with hardened leather
thongs they leveled their strokes upon the places already
sore and caused the discolored tumors to break open and
shed forth the sacred blood until it bespattered and
drenched the garments of the sacrilegious torturers,
running down also in streams to the pavement. Those two
gave way to the third pair of scourgers, who commenced
to beat the Lord with extremely tough rawhides, dried hard
like osier twigs. They scourged Him still more cruelly,
because they were wounding, not so much his virginal
body, as cutting into the wounds already produced by the
previous scourging. Besides they had been secretly incited
to greater fury by the demons, who were filled with new
rage at the patience of Christ. (Mystical city of God)

15. St. Augustine assures us that there is no spiritual exercise more fruitful or more useful than
the frequent reflection on the sufferings of our Lord. Blessed Albert the Great, who had
St. Thomas Aquinas as his student, learned in a revelation that by simply thinking
of or meditating on the passion of Jesus Christ, a Christian gains more merit than if
he had fasted on bread and water every Friday for a year, or had beaten himself
with the discipline once a week till blood flowed, or had recited the whole Book of
Psalms every day. If this is so, then how great must be the merit we can gain from the
Rosary, which commemorates the whole life and passion of our Lord? (St. Louis

16. 3. The actual scourging as
revealed by Our Lady

17. 6. Let us never forget that we have been redeemed
at great price by the precious blood of Christ.
“By the stripes
of Christ, we
are healed and
set free. By the
scourging, He
atoned for
mankind’s
sins of
sensuality
and impurity.”
(Gobbi)
Michael Pacher, Flagellation of Christ. 1495. Church of Salzburg. Vienna.

18. 7. “At the first blow of the scourging, I fell as if dead, and on
recovering my senses, I beheld His Body bruised and
beaten to the very ribs, so that His ribs could be seen.”
(Our Lady said to St. Bridget of Sweden.)
Passion of Christ. Movie

19. 7A.The normal procedure was to be whipped 39 times. Jesus
was whipped furiously: the demons took possession of the
soldiers. Jesus’ flesh was so torn, you could see His bones.
Passion of Christ. Movie

20. 8.*** “Pray for those who are possessed by hatred.
Pray for those who are consumed by revenge.”
Not for one moment did she (Our Lady) stop praying for the
enemies and torturers of her Son. (Mary of Agreda. Mystical city of God.)
Passion of Christ. Movie

21. 8A. For forty five minutes she witnessed the scourging of her divine
Son by three successive pairs of cursing Egyptian slaves armed with
hard cords, thorny branches and chains equipped with sharp iron
hooks.
Passion of Christ. Movie

22. 8B. The great Lord and Author of all creation who, by his divine
nature was incapable of suffering, was, in his human flesh and for
our sake, reduced to a man of sorrows. (Mary of Agreda)
Passion of Christ. Movie

23.  As the veins of the sacred body had now been
opened and his whole Person seemed but one
continued wound, the third pair found no more
room for new wounds. Their ceaseless blows
inhumanly tore the immaculate and virginal flesh
of Christ our Redeemer and scattered many pieces
of it about the pavement; so much so that a large
portion of the shoulder-bones were exposed and
showed red through the flowing blood: in other
places also the bones were laid bare larger than
the palm of the hand. In order to wipe out entirely
that beauty, which exceeded that of all other men
(Ps. 44, 3), they beat Him in the face and in the feet
and hands, thus leaving unwounded not a single
spot in which they could exert their fury and wrath
against the most innocent Lamb. The divine blood
flowed to the ground, gathering here and there in
great abundance. (Mary of Agreda. Mystical City of
God.)

24.  The scourging in the face, and in the hands and
feet, was unspeakably painful, because these
parts are so full of sensitive and delicate nerves.
His venerable countenance became so swollen
and wounded that the blood and the swellings
blinded Him. In addition to their blows the
executioners spited upon his Person their
disgusting spittle and loaded Him with insulting
epithets (Thren. 3, 30). The exact number of blows
dealt out to the Savior from head to foot was 5,115.
The great Lord and Author of all creation who, by
his divine nature was incapable of suffering, was,
in his human flesh and for our sake, reduced to a
man of sorrows as prophesied, and was made to
experience our infirmities, becoming the last of
men (Is. 53, 3), a man of sorrows and the outcast
of the people. (Mystical city of God)

25. 9. Christ after flagellation.
“There are few souls who contemplate My Passion
with true feeling. I give great graces to souls who
meditate devoutly on My Passion”-----Jesus spoke to St.
Faustina Kowalska.
Diego Rodriguez de Silva, Christ after the Flagellation, 1632. National Gallery. London.

26. 10. Today Jesus is scourged in his body by the spread of
sins of impurity, by this flood of filth, and by so many
offences committed against the dignity of the human person.
(Gobbi)
Jaime Huguet, Flagellation of Christ, 1492. Museum of Louvre. Paris

27. The ( National ) Rosary For the Evangelization of
(Nations)
1. Fatima Prayer: To Eucharistic Jesus, source of all
evangelization.
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of
hell, lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in
most need of thy mercy.”
2. Invocation of the Holy Spirit: Principal agent of
evangelization.
“Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of the (National) people
and enkindle in them the fire of your love! Come by means
of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, your well-beloved Spouse.”
3. Prayer to Our Lady of ( Nation ): Star of the new
evangelization.
“Hail Holy Queen, Mother of (Nation), come and present the
(National) people to Jesus, the fruit of thy womb.
Look upon them continually with mercy and through your