2. Meditations on the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ

Let us read, stop at times, meditate. Let each and everyone of us thank the Saviour for HE suffered all this … JUST for ME, personally.

Let us Pray:

 “We adore you O Lord and we bless you, because of your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world.”

Christ has undergone Flagellation. Referring to studied information made by Mons Giulio Ricci, Vatican appointed Head of the Commission to study the authenticity, or otherwise, of the Turin Shroud has much to say regarding the Flagellation of Christ.

We refer to the “Holy Shroud’ in Italian, ‘Santo Sindone’ from the Greek word ‘Sindo’ which means ‘shroud’. From photographic studies with sophisticated, state of the art instruments, much was discovered what actually happened to the ‘man of the shroud’.

The photographs taken produced a 3D-effect of what is in the Shroud; it is a sort of ‘high relief’ as we call it in art. So we do not have a flat reproduction of an object, but a sort of relief map of what is in the Shroud.

                                             

Mons. G. Ricci, who has been studying the Shroud for almost 40 years , could reproduce a model…one of the many, on the results of the photographs.

In 1976, two American physicists discovered that on this Shroud there is a three-dimensional information, depending on the proximity of the Shroud to the body of the dead person. The highest relief depended on the fact that the shroud was actually touching the body.

From the angle and the depth of the wound marks it was deduced that Jesus was bound to a short column, with both hands tied, sort of resting on the column. According to a reconstruction of models, to fit the original Shroud, Mons. Ricci tells us that the Man of the Shroud received over 120 beatings, by two men, one on either side.

                                                             

From the Shroud it is also evident the scar, the wound on the shoulder, caused by the weight of the ‘patibulum, the cross piece carried by the victims.

Let us Pray:

 “We adore you O Lord and we bless you, because of your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world.”                                  

Let us meditate, and think…I should have been the one to be scourged, because it is I who have committed so many sins, not Jesus, yet it was  Jesus who took my place.  Do I ever stop to THANK the Lord Jesus for taking my place … whilst I keep on sinning.

Thank you, Jesus, help me to appreciate, not by paying lip service, BUT by stopping from sinning and offending YOU.                                            /3

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