Meditating on the Passion of Christ

[Credo_in_Deum]

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to share this link to a PDF document which has pictures of a very realistic crucifix. I’m going to warn you it is graphic; however, IMHO I find it helpful to see these images. I hope they help others as well. If they do not then please share things which have helped you meditate on the Passion of our Lord. I’m very interested in any book recommendations or prayers others may have to share.

shroudnm.com/docs/Shroud-Crucifix.pdf

V. We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee.
R. Because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.

God Bless.

 

[brian614]

Very interesting, and you are right very graphic…

Thanks for sharing

 

[The_Reginator]

Before I head off to bed I’ll mention one aspect of Christ’s Passion that is not of a physical nature.
This mostly concerns Holy Thursday.

In the garden our Lord Jesus suffered terribly.
For one thing He had to accept ALL OF OUR SINS and take them into His sinless self.
He also knew that, even though He was making this great sacrifice of love, He was also to suffer a humiliating and torturous death.
The worst part, it seems to me, is the knowledge that all this pain and suffering, this taking on our sins, and having all these people turn on him, there would be millions (billions+?) down through the ages that would not only not take Him seriously, but even make a mockery of this most loving sacrifice.
All this suffering and so many that He and His Father love would choose hell over this most Holy Sacrifice!

Thank you ever so much for sharing this document.

• Reg.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

Very interesting. I note they say the cheek bone was broken, and there is a yellow arrow pointing to the word broken. Probably because the scripture says:

But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. … For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. (Jn. 19:33, 36; cf. Ps. 34:20)

I don’t know enough to say whether the prophecy rules out a broken cheek bone or not (maybe it just applied to the breaking of the legs?)

I also note that Fr. John Hardon S.J. (and others) used to say that it is Church teaching that Christ bled to death; but there are those who insist on asphyxiation. The website linked in this thread seems to support heart failure.

 

[johnthebaptist2]

Here is something I say,when I Meditate on Jesus Passion.
Adorable Face of Jesus,myonly love,my light and my life,grant that I may serve,
know and love Thee alone,thatI may live with Thee of Thee, by Thee and for Thee.Amen

 

[Credo_in_Deum]

Very interesting, and you are right very graphic…

Thanks for sharing

I hope it has helped in some way.

Before I head off to bed I’ll mention one aspect of Christ’s Passion that is not of a physical nature.
This mostly concerns Holy Thursday.

In the garden our Lord Jesus suffered terribly.
For one thing He had to accept ALL OF OUR SINS and take them into His sinless self.
He also knew that, even though He was making this great sacrifice of love, He was also to suffer a humiliating and torturous death.
The worst part, it seems to me, is the knowledge that all this pain and suffering, this taking on our sins, and having all these people turn on him, there would be millions (billions+?) down through the ages that would not only not take Him seriously, but even make a mockery of this most loving sacrifice.
All this suffering and so many that He and His Father love would choose hell over this most Holy Sacrifice!

Thank you ever so much for sharing this document.

• Reg.

Thank you for sharing, Reg. I think about this too. I thinking about how Christ took on our sicknesses and our infirmities; and, as Ven. Fulton J. Sheen said he took on all the blindness of those who would ever be blind, and all of the doubt of those who would ever doubt. All of our loneliness, anger, frustrations, and emptiness, He took on and experienced all of it. Then He allowed us to participate in this love by taking on the sins of others in imitation of His love and joining or sacrifices with His.

Truly amazing.

Very interesting. I note they say the cheek bone was broken, and there is a yellow arrow pointing to the word broken. Probably because the scripture says:

But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. … For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. (Jn. 19:33, 36; cf. Ps. 34:20)

I don’t know enough to say whether the prophecy rules out a broken cheek bone or not (maybe it just applied to the breaking of the legs?)

I also note that Fr. John Hardon S.J. (and others) used to say that it is Church teaching that Christ bled to death; but there are those who insist on asphyxiation. The website linked in this thread seems to support heart failure.

There have been many different theories. Which one is true? I have no clue. I simply find the pictures to be helpful. Usually crucifixes portray a “neat” and “nice” version of Christ on the Cross.

Here is something I say,when I Meditate on Jesus Passion.
Adorable Face of Jesus,myonly love,my light and my life,grant that I may serve,
know and love Thee alone,thatI may live with Thee of Thee, by Thee and for Thee.Amen

Thank you so much for the prayer. I like it a lot.

God Bless.

 

[ronh4]

Thanks for sharing this Passion of Christ.

I have meditated on The Passion many times and this is similar to how I depict Jesus on the Cross. It is easy to bring tears to one’s eyes

 

[melekali]

This was done by a professor in Spain from his studies of the Shroud. It’s quite amazing, isn’t it? My own studies with the Shroud (I am the webmaster of http:\ShroudNM.com) have lead me partially in the deaconate program for my diocese. We are glad you liked the presentation. You might also be interested in the slideshow about the crucifixion from our Shroud series - shroudnm.com/docs/SEAM-Turin-Shroud-Presentation2-Crucifixion.pdf.

God bless you all.

 

[brian614]

This was done by a professor in Spain from his studies of the Shroud. It’s quite amazing, isn’t it? My own studies with the Shroud (I am the webmaster of http:\ShroudNM.com) have lead me partially in the deaconate program for my diocese. We are glad you liked the presentation. You might also be interested in the slideshow about the crucifixion from our Shroud series - shroudnm.com/docs/SEAM-Turin-Shroud-Presentation2-Crucifixion.pdf.

God bless you all.

Thanks for the slide show that was very interesting…

 

[hope19]

This was done by a professor in Spain from his studies of the Shroud. It’s quite amazing, isn’t it? My own studies with the Shroud (I am the webmaster of http:\ShroudNM.com) have lead me partially in the deaconate program for my diocese. We are glad you liked the presentation. You might also be interested in the slideshow about the crucifixion from our Shroud series - shroudnm.com/docs/SEAM-Turin-Shroud-Presentation2-Crucifixion.pdf.

God bless you all.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[bcuster]

I think this would be great for my middle school students during lent.

 

[otjm]

Very interesting. I note they say the cheek bone was broken, and there is a yellow arrow pointing to the word broken. Probably because the scripture says:

But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. … For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. (Jn. 19:33, 36; cf. Ps. 34:20)

I don’t know enough to say whether the prophecy rules out a broken cheek bone or not (maybe it just applied to the breaking of the legs?)

I also note that Fr. John Hardon S.J. (and others) used to say that it is Church teaching that Christ bled to death; but there are those who insist on asphyxiation. The website linked in this thread seems to support heart failure.

It is entirely possible that Christ bled to death; or died from shock, or asphyxiated. Asphyxiation was the normal means of death due to the position of the body and the arms; one had to pull oneself up to draw or expel a breath, and when one was no longer capable of lifting oneself up high enough to overcome the effective cutting off of normal breathing, one asphyxiated. It was not unusual for death to take several days to achieve.

The Roman’s method of death was perhaps less cruel that who - the Greeks? The Assyrians? who used to impale the individual on a stake.