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The Sorrowful Mysteries
The Crucifixion
The Crucifixion
These meditations are taken from "The City of God", by Venerable Mary of Agreda (Spain) and are used with permission of JMJ Book Co. Necedah, Wisconsin, USA.
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Mount Calvary was held to be a place of defilement, as being
reserved for the chastisement of convicted criminals.
Our Most
Loving Saviour arrived at its summit worn out, wounded, torn and
disfigured. It was already noon, and the executioners again
stripped Jesus of His garments.
As they roughly pulled His tunic
over His head, they inhumanly tore off the Crown of Thorns
opening anew all the wounds in His head. With heartless cruelty
they again forced it down on His Sacred Head, opening up wounds
upon wounds.
Then one of the executioners seized His hand and
placed it over the auger hole which they had drilled in the Cross,
while another hammered a large and rough nail through it.
The veins and sinews were torn, and the bones and nerves forced
apart.
When they stretched out the other Hand, they found it did
not reach the auger hole, because they had deliberately drilled
them too far apart, in order to add a further torture.
Looping a chain through a ring around His wrist, they inhumanly
pulled the other Hand over the auger hole, and nailed it fast, doing
likewise to His feet.
From the noon hour until three o'clock, Our
Lord hung there and then expired, after hours of incredible agony.