CHAPTER XXXI. The First Fall of Jesus. The street of which we have just spoken, after turning a little to the left, became rather steep, as also wider, a subterranean aqueduct proceeding from Mount Sion passed under it, and in its vicinity was a hollow which was often filled with water and mud after rain, […]
Month: January 2019
The bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 8
CHAPTER XXVI. The Crowning with Thorns. No sooner did Sister Emmerich recommence the narrative of her visions on the Passion than she again became extremely ill, oppressed with fever, and so tormented by violent thirst that her tongue was perfectly parched and contracted; and on the Monday after Mid- Lent Sunday, she was so exhausted […]
The bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 7
CHAPTER XXI. Jesus led back from the Court of Herod to that of Pilate. The enemies of Jesus were perfectly infuriated at being obliged to take Jesus back, still uncondemned, to Pilate, who had so many times declared his innocence. They led him round by a much longer road, in order in the first place […]
The bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 6
CHAPTER XVI. Description of Pilate’s Palace and the adjacent Buildings. The palace of the Roman governor, Pilate, was built on the north-west side of the mountain on which the Temple stood, and to reach it persons were obliged to ascend a flight of marble steps. It overlooked a large square surrounded by a colonnade, under […]
The bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 5
CHAPTER XI. Mary in the House of Caiphas. The Blessed Virgin was ever united to her Divine Son by interior spiritual communications; she was, therefore, fully aware of all that happened to him—she suffered with him, and joined in his continual prayer for his murderers. But her maternal feelings prompted her to supplicate Almighty God […]
The bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 4
CHAPTER VI. Jesus before Annas. It was towards midnight when Jesus reached the palace of Annas, and his guards immediately conducted him into a very large hall, where Annas, surrounded by twentyeight councillors, was seated on a species of platform, raised a little above the level of the floor, and placed opposite to the entrance. […]
The bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 3
CHAPTER II. Judas and his band. Judas had not expected that his treason would have produced such fatal results. He had been anxious to obtain the promised reward, and to please the Pharisees by delivering up Jesus into their hands, but he had never calculated on things going so far, or thought that the enemies […]
The bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 2
MEDITATION VI. The Last Pasch. Jesus and his disciples ate the Paschal Lamb in the supper-room. They divided into three groups. Jesus ate the Paschal Lamb with the twelve Apostles in the supper-room, properly so called; Nathaniel with twelve other disciples in one of the lateral rooms, and Eliacim (the son of Cleophas and Mary, […]
The bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – Part 1
MEDITATION I. Preparations for the Pasch Holy Thursday, the 13th Nisan (29th of March). Yesterday evening it was that the last great public repast of our Lord and his friends took place in the house of Simon the Leper, at Bethania, and Mary Magdalen for the last time anointed the feet of Jesus with precious […]