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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