MEDAL Jesus Crowned with Thorns Virgin Carmel Scapular

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MEDAL Jesus Crowned with Thorns Virgin Carmel Scapular

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Sold Date: 06/07/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations

THIS MEDAL TO USE OR TO GIFT OR TO COLLECTION. CAME FROM ITALY. I BOUGHT ALL LOT IN SAINT SEDE VATICAN, AND I BLESSED THEM IN THE MASS. MEASURES: 7/8" inches x 1/2" inches x tick 1/4" inches all approx. In this mass, when up my hands to bless the medal I felt some very rare. I felt with very near of Christ. I rec' with my heart this cross medal. God bless you. Material: i don't know. maybe alloys of differents metals. the medal is free of alergeric.

The Passion of Christ
Jesus Crowned with Thorns
Meditation

THE soldiers, having scourged Jesus, are inspired by the devil with a new method of torturing Him. They take a bundle of long, sharp, strong thorns, and having woven them into a crown, place it on His head, thus constituting Him the King of ignominy and suffering.

Consider:
1. The inexpressible agony inflicted by this torture.

If a single thorn were to pierce your head, what exquisite pain would it not cause? But if it were ever so slightly pressed, the anguish would become quite insupportable. The sacred Head of Jesus is encircled with a whole wreath of long sharp thorns which pierce it on every side. Oh, what torture must our suffering Redeemer now experience. Behold what your impure thoughts, guilty pleasures, and sinful desires have cost Jesus! Behold by what exquisite sufferings Jesus has expiated your ambitious designs, your vanity, and your pride, and at how dear a rate he has purchased for you the graces of humility, patience and contempt of the world! The barbarous soldiers, eager to inflict all possible torture upon our patient Saviour, violently press down the crown upon His brow, by repeated blows, so that the sharp thorns wound and pierce the most delicate parts of that adorable Head. My soul, contemplate this King of Sorrows, and behold the streams of blood flowing from every part of His wounded Head, disfiguring and discoloring His amiable countenance. Oh, how much blood has thy salvation cost Jesus! Compassionate thy suffering Redeemer, and recognize the fruit of thy hateful sins in those thorns, those wounds, and those streams of blood. Each time that thou hast deliberately entertained evil thoughts, so often hast thou crowned the sacred Head of Jesus with sharp thorns. Is it possible that thou canst ever more indulge in vain, blasphemous, and impure thoughts, or in desires of earthly grandeur, after reflecting upon Jesus crowned with thorns?

2. The disgraceful character of this torture.

The enemies of Jesus Christ seem to take peculiar satisfaction in making Him a mock King, in ridiculing His sufferings, and in subjecting Him to every species of degradation and insult. They furiously tear off His garments, and clothe Him in a ragged purple mantle. This outrage is a source of exquisite suffering to Jesus, for the tearing off His garments re-opens all the wounds which have been so lately inflicted by His flagellation, so that fresh blood flows from the lacerated limbs. Oh, how much have the pleasures of our sinful flesh, the delicacy of our bodies, the luxury and vanity of our clothing, cost our sweet Jesus!

They place in His hand a reed as a scepter, to constitute Him a mock King, a King of a theater! Jesus refuses it not, but receives and holds it in His hand, rejoicing by so great a dishonor to merit for you graces of strength and perseverance in virtue, and to purchase for you a heavenly kingdom. In this state Jesus appears to the insolent soldiery a proper subject for mockery, and they proceed to ridicule Him in a manner worthy of their cruelty. They all march before Him, saluting Him in the most derisive terms King of the Jews. They deride Him as a wretched impostor, adding shameful insults and reproaches to the most humiliating expressions of scorn and ridicule; they spit in His face, give him blows, and, taking the reed out of His hand, strike the crown of thorns with it so violently as to enlarge every wound, and cause Him the most exquisite pain. They vie with each other in deriding and insulting Him, and...