Traditional Lenten Meditation

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Fourth Week of Lent: Tuesday - Traditional Lenten Meditation

Practical Meditations For Every Day in the Year on the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ composed chiefly for the Use of Religious by a Father of the Society of Jesus. First translated from the French, 1868. Though primarily intended for Religious, the devout layman will find the Practical Meditations a most serviceable and bracing form of Spiritual Exercise amounting in fact to something like the daily practice of a Retreat.

FOURTH WEEK OF LENT: TUESDAY
The Insults which preceded the Crowning with Thorns

1st Prelude. Behold our Blessed Lord sitting on a block of wood, holding a reed in His hand, His head crowned with thorns and insulted by the guards of the Roman governor.

2nd Prelude. Beg for feelings of deep grief and compunction.


POINT I. The insults offered to Jesus.

CONSIDERATION. After the outrage of scourging, fearful insults were heaped upon our Divine Lord. Pilate's soldiers, who had led Him to the court of Herod, were anxious that these insults should excel those offered to Him there. He had there been treated as a fool; they would now crown Him as a fool, as the king of fools; as says holy writ, "taking Jesus into the hall, gathered together unto Him the whole band, and stripping Him, they put a scarlet cloak about Him, and platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand. And bowing the knee before Him, they mocked Him, saying, Hail King of the Jews! And spitting on Him, they took the reed and struck His head, and they gave Him blows."

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