How much did Jesus suffer?

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Does anyone know? I think his suffering was infinite, but I don’t know for sure. What does the church teach?
 
Well it certainly had to be enough to pay the penalty for all sins that ever have been or ever will be committed - if not infinite then it’s pretty darn close!
 
Whenever I try an meditate on the passion of Our Beloved Lord, I find the sorrow that fills my heart unbearable and consequently will only last for a few moments.

O my God, how much you love us all.
 
zorrox said:
Only God knows, as His suffering was great as His love it must have been infinite.

For a greater insight into this please consider taking up these prayers regularly, they have been a blessing to me.:gopray:

fisheaters.com/15prayersofstbridget.html
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I second this website.

According to the revelation to St. Bridget, Jesus has endured
5480 wounds, plus the spiritual and mental agony and the enormous burden of sins from entire mankind.

Our Lord’s suffering is unimaginable.
 
zorrox said:
Only God knows, as His suffering was great as His love it must have been infinite.

For a greater insight into this please consider taking up these prayers regularly, they have been a blessing to me.:gopray:

fisheaters.com/15prayersofstbridget.html
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I second the above website. St. Bridget’s prayer is a blessing.
According to the revelation St. Bridget received, our Lord has endured 5480 wounds during his Passion. Plus the mental agony and the enormous burden of sins from entire mankind.
Our Lord’s suffering is unimaginable.
 
Foryt years ago a priest mentioned Cardinal Newman’s classic sermon on this subject, since he wanted to read it again and and asked me in fact to locate it for him. That was how I discovered this item, which is very worthwhile on the subject of Christ’s passion…
It is available at newmanreader.org/works/discourses/discourse16.html
 
Ever hear a story from somebody who went fishing and holds their hands apart to tell how big the fish was that got away?

In the same manner, Jesus told us how much He loves us and how much He suffered for us – see how far apart his hands are on the cross. All the way.
 
To relate to this issue one would have to think outside the flesh into the spirit. We could look into what our eyes see what our mind thinks what any book may write. However to look into this issue of Christs pain for our sins we have to relate in the spirit (not the flesh), to the spiritual relationship of the words mercy", “forgiveness”, “love”, God’s understanding or spiritual understanding of sin, Jesus was going through this pain and death for.

The nearest person who I know that went through something like Jesus was St Therese the little flower, who asked Jesus if she could die as Jesus did. At one time she said if there had been any kind of poison she would have taken it the pain being so severe.
 
twohearts said:
Does anyone know? I think his suffering was infinite, but I don’t know for sure. What does the church teach?
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The Mother of God is speaking:

15 When the time of my Son’s passion arrived, his enemies seized him. They struck him on his cheek and neck and spat at him as they made sport of him. When he was led to the pillar, he took off his clothes himself and placed his own hands on the pillar, and his enemies then mercilessly bound them. 16 Bound to the pillar, without any kind of covering, just as he had been born, he stood there and suffered the embarrassment of being naked. His friends had fled, but his enemies were ready for action. They stood there on all sides and scourged his body that was clean from every stain and sin. 17 I was standing nearby and, at the first lash, I fell down as if I were dead. When I revived, I could see his body whipped and scourged to the ribs. What was even more horrible was that when they pulled the whips back, the weighted thongs tore his flesh.[7] 18 As my Son was standing there all bloody and covered with wounds, so that no sound spot[8] was left on him that could be whipped, then someone, aroused in spirit, asked: ‘Are you going to kill him thus unsentenced?’ And straightaway he cut his bonds. 19 Then my Son himself put his clothes back on. I saw that the place where my Son had been standing was covered with blood, and by his footprints I could tell which way he walked, for the ground seemed to be soaked with blood wherever he went. 20 They had no patience with him to let him get dressed, but pushed and dragged him to hurry him on. As my Son was being led off like a thief, he dried the blood from his eyes. Once he was sentenced, they placed the cross on him to carry. He did carry it for a while, but then someone[9] came along and undertook to carry it for him. 21 As my Son was going to the place of his passion, same people struck him on the neck, while others hit him in the face. He was hit so hard and with so much force that, although I did not see who hit him, I heard the sound of the blow clearly. When I reached the place of the passion with him, I saw all the instruments of his death ready. When my Son got there, he took off his clothes himself, while the servants said to each other:

‘These are our clothes[10] and he will not get them back since he is condemned to death.’ 22 My Son was standing there, naked as he had been born, when someone came running up and offered him a veil with which he joyfully covered his shame. Then his cruel executioners seized him and stretched him out on the cross, nailing first his right hand to the crossbeam that had a hole in it for the nail. They pierced his hand at the point where the bone was more solid. With a rope e they pulled his other hand and attached it to the crossbeam in similar fashion. 23 Then they crucified his right foot with the left on top of it using two nails[11] so that all his sinews and veins became overstrained and burst. After that they put the crown of thorns on his head and it cut so deeply into my Son’s venerable head that the blood filled his eyes as it flowed, blocked up his ears and stained his beard as it ran down. As he stood on the cross wounded and bloody, he felt compassion for me who was standing by in tears and, looking with his bloodied eyes in the direction of John, my nephew, he commended me to him.[12]

24 At the time I could hear some people saying that my Son was a thief, others that he was a liar, still others that no one was more deserving of death than my Son. My sorrow was renewed from hearing all this. But, as I said before, when the first nail was driven into him, that first blow shook me so much that I fell down as if dead, my eyes covered in darkness, my hands trembling, my feet unsteady. In the bitterness of my grief I was not able to watch until he had been fastened entirely to the cross. 25 When I got up, I saw my Son hanging there in misery and, in my thorough dismay, I his most unhappy Mother, could hardly stand on my feet due to grief. Seeing me and his friends weeping inconsolably, my Son cried out in a loud and doleful voice to his Father, saying, ‘Father, why have you abandoned me?’[13] It was as if to say: ‘There is no one who takes pity on me but you, Father.’ 26 At that stage his eyes looked half-dead, his cheeks were sunken, his face mournful, his mouth open and his tongue bloody. His stomach was sucked in toward his back, all the liquid having been consumed, as if he had no vital organs. All his body was pale and languid due to the loss of blood. His hands and feet were rigidly extended, being pulled toward the cross and shaped like the shape of the cross. His beard and hair were completely covered with blood.

Please read the remainder of the chapter at:

saintbirgitta.com/vol1_book1/b1_b1_ch10.htm
 
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