This is the movement of the Holy Family.

So welcome to our Rosary Meditation.

Today we are at the place of the scourging at the pillar, the second sorrowful mystery of the Rosary.

A place where Pilate judged Jesus, condemned him to death, had him scourged, crowned with thorns,

and made him carry the cross.

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

Amen.

It's called to mind all those we've promised to pray for, especially for Olivia and Margo

through the intercession of Blessed Pauline Jericho,

and in Thanksgiving for all the great apostleship of Jerry Robinson.

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 something else going on.

He sweat blood in Gassimony 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 scurging 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 scourging.

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