Second Sorrowful Mystery: Scourging at the Pillar
Spiritual Fruits: Purity, Mortification
Mortification isn’t popular these days, but making small sacrifices and offering them up can be a great help to one’s spiritual life. There is an opportunity every day to sacrifice and to suffer in some small way. (Source)
2 fruits I see:
- Endurance
- Strength
Pilate addressed them a third time, “What evil has this man done? I found him guilty of no capital crime.”
Luke 23:22a
Our Father…
“Therefore I shall have him flogged and then release him.”
Luke 23:22b
Hail Mary …
With loud shouts, however, they persisted in calling for his crucifixion, and their voices prevailed.
Luke 23:23
Hail Mary …
The verdict of Pilate was that their demand should be granted.
Luke 23:24
Hail Mary …
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.
John 19:1
Hail Mary …
So he released the man who had been imprisoned for rebellion and murder, for whom they asked, and he handed Jesus over to them to deal with as they wished.
Luke 23:25
Hail Mary …
How lonely she is now,
the once crowded city!
Lamentations 1:1a
Hail Mary …
Widowed is she
who was mistress over nations.
Lamentations 1:1b
Hail Mary …
The princess among the provinces
has been made a toiling slave.
Lamentations 1:1c
Hail Mary …
Bitterly she weeps at night,
tears upon her cheeks.
Lamentations 1:2a
Hail Mary …
With not one to console her
of all her dear ones.
Lamentations 1:2b
Hail Mary …
Her friends have all betrayed her
and become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:2c
Glory Be…
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