The Second Sorrowful Mystery
The Scourging at the Pillar
Jesus is stripped and unmercifully scourged until His body is one mass of bloody wounds.
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed by Thy name, Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.
"And straightway in the morning, the chief priests holding a consultation with the ancients and the scribes and the whole council, binding Jesus, led him away, and delivered him to Pilate. And Pilate asked him: Art thou the king of the Jews?" (Mark 15:1,2)
Hail, Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
"Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king." (John 18:36,37)
Hail Mary ~
"For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice." (John 18:37)
Hail Mary ~
"Pilate saith to him: What is truth? And when he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and saith to them: I find no cause in him." (John 18:37)
Hail Mary ~
"I will chastise him therefore, and release him. Then therefore, Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him." (Luke 23:16, John 19:1)
Hail Mary ~
"Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not." (Isaiah 53:3)
Hail Mary ~
"He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth." (Isaiah 53:7)
Hail Mary ~
"But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins …" (Isaiah 53:5)
Hail Mary ~
"Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted." (Isaiah 53:4)
Hail Mary ~
"… the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5)
Hail Mary ~
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.