The Sufferings During the Passion of Our Lord
From Pieta prayer booklet
The amount of suffering Jesus endured for us and our salvation is unimaginable and incomprehensible. His Holy Mother Mary by divine will felt what He felt and lived through His pain. We can't begin to understand what they experienced.
No human being could withstand this amount of torture. It was only by His Divine Nature that He could undergo His Passion. The 3 mortal wounds from the Crown of Thorns would have killed a human and yet He still had the carrying of the Cross and Crucifixion to endure. If it were one of us going through this, we would have passed out from pain and loss of blood just in the scourging alone and never would have completed the whole passion.
Think About It! Meditate On It!
Be it known that during the passion of Our Lord there were:
150 armed soldiers
23 followed Him when He was bound
83 executioners of justice
150 blows to His head
108 blows to His stomach
80 kicks to His shoulder
180 spits in His face
24 times led by cords bound to His hair
6666 times beaten on His body
110 times beaten on His head
Roughly pushed
12:00 lifted up by His hair
23 times pricked with thorns and pulled by His beard
20 wounds on His head
72 thorns of marine junks
110 pricks of thorns on His head
3 mortal thorns to His forehead
Flogged 1000 wounds
Dressed as a mock king
608 soldiers led Him to Calvary
3 soldiers watched Him
1008 soldiers mocked Him
28,430 drops of His blood lost
In ome April 5, 1890
Benedetta DA S.S., Pope Leo XIII,
Even if the above wasn’t completely accurate, it still shows the degree of torment, pain and humiliation Our Savior went through to open the gates of Heaven for us ungrateful sinners. Can you not spend one hour in reparation for our sins with Him?