"Directives"
#66 THE
PASSION OF CHRIST (PART I)
"TAKE
REFUGE IN THE SACRED WOUNDS of Christ, and there in the fervor of
prayer, and in serious meditation on His passion, find a salutary
remedy for all the wants of thy soul. "
-THOMAS A KEMPIS,
Valley of the Lilies
YOUR PASSION
"You must meditate more on
the Passion. Why, My children Because you, too, as followers of
Mine, shall go through your passion upon earth.... Time shall bear
out this message." -Jesus, November 1, 1977
THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN
I saw Jesus on His knees,
bent over in anguish, praying.... There was a great sadness in His
face, great sorrow. He was talking to His Father in Heaven:
"Father, I will drink of this cup, down to the last drop, if it be
Your will. It is not I that should seek that this cup be removed
from Me. My strength is everlasting in the light, and My heart a
bleeding vessel for this cup." -Veronica, March 8, 1971
THE SCOURGING
I cried out, "No! No! Stop
that!" For there was our beloved Jesus being pulled to and fro as
His tormentors pulled His upper garment from His back. They tied
His wrists together and drove a spike into an upright beam. Jesus'
hands were bound by strips of a brown, leather-like cord. Then the
central part of the cord that bound His hands was looped over the
spike in the beam. Poor Jesus was pinned by His hands. There were
five people in this cave-like room that appeared to be dug out of
a hillside, a sort of hole-room in the hillside. I screamed and
winced as two soldiers took turns hitting Jesus' bare back with a
long brown, leather-like strap. On this strap were metal hooks,
laid horizontally all along the strap These nail-like, claw-like
fixtures on the strap cut and scratched deeply into Jesus' flesh,
causing blood to pour out. It was a despicable game with the
soldiers. They laughed and joked. Jesus never said a word. I
cried, "Say something! Say something!" He could save Himself, but
Jesus remained silent as they spat and insulted Him. His back
became a mass of welts and torn flesh. Jesus was barefoot; His
sandals had fallen off as they banged a stake higher into the pole
and raised poor Jesus up so His toes barely touched the floor. The
floor was just dirt and blood. The soldier remarked, "Maybe they
cut out His lying tongue. Ha, ha!" Our poor Jesus remained silent.
-Veronica, March 8, 1971
THE CROWNING OF THORNS
I then saw Jesus. He had
been cut from the post and had fallen over. A soldier roughly
pulled Him over to a wicker-like stool and plunked Jesus onto it.
Poor Jesus hung forward, and a nasty soldier put a 1ong stick in
His hands to balance Him up, and yelled, "Ha, ha! So this is the
King of the Jews! Let's dress Him as fitting!" The soldier went
outside, to return with an armful of brier bush. He used the metal
tongs to make it easier to handle. He made a sort of cap and
stuffed a circlet of briers into it. In that way he could handle
it better and shove it on poor Jesus' head. The thorns were too
hard to weave, to stay together, so the cap was thought of. It was
so big, and he kept batting it down with a stick. The sadist
gloated as he swung. Jesus, dearest Savior, said never a word. The
pain was excruciating. Tears coursed down the cheeks of our poor
Jesus, but they were of sorrow. The greatest pain was in His
heart! Jesus' hands were tied again with the brown, leatherlike
material; and He was dragged to His feet. The soldier draped His
top gown over His torn back. Oh, I could see it stick to his
oozing blood. Oh, it was horrible! -Veronica, May 8,, 1971
BASKET WEAVE CAP
And now He's tapping His
forehead. Oh, He wants me to tell you, as He told me this
afternoon, that I must tell the world that when He was
crucified... they have a false notion about His crown of thorns.
The crown of thorns were placed in a basket weave cap and then
placed on His head, and He was pummeled and hammered with sticks
and a sledge hammer to get it down on His head; and that drove the
terrible spikes of the thorns into His head. It seems that His
murderers could not find gloves at the time to handle the thorns.
So they thought to take their implements and place these terrible
thorn weeds inside of the basket weave hat. And that is what Jesus
wore when He was crucified. -Veronica, September 27, 1986
THE MASS
"The Eternal Father has
set upon earth His rule. He has sent My Son to you as a pure
Sacrifice to open this Kingdom to you.... That Sacrifice was known
by the Father and My Son, and was to be perpetrated and continued
unto eternity!"
-Our Lady, March 18, 1975
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