This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation.

We are in Jerusalem.

We are at the place of the second and third sorrowful mysteries, the scourging and the crowning of thorns.

So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Like none of the other moments of Christ's passion, the scourging at the pillar highlights his physical pain.

Yes, he had physical pain during nearly all the other sorrowful mysteries, but in those cases the pain was a byproduct of someone

of something else going on.

He sweat blood in Gissemone as a byproduct of his fear.

The thorns that pierced his head were a byproduct of his

humiliation.

The weariness on the road to Calvary was a byproduct of having been given the job of transporting his own cross.

And even the pain of the crucifixion itself was a result of carrying out the Roman procedure for execution.

But, with the scourging of the pillar, nothing else was happening.

Nothing else was going on.

The whole event was simply about the pure physical pain.

Pain was the point of the sc physical pain.

pain was the point of the scourging.

They did it just to hurt him.

And if he accepted that beating, that pointless sadistic beating.

It must have been because he was able to make something out of the pain, something good.

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