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The Medallion of the Apostolate of the New Evangelization
The Passion
Reflections that Jesus makes on the mystery of His suffering and the value it has on the Redemption.
Cochabamba — Bolivia
Spanish Editions: 1996 and 1998
English 1st Edition - November 1999
Today's Gospel
John 18 & 19
Jesus Arrested
1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was
an olive grove, and he and his disciples went into it.
2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.
3 So Judas came to the grove, guid- ing a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and
Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons.
4 Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, Who is it you want?
5 Jesus of Nazareth, they replied. I am he, Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.)
6 When Jesus said, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground.
7 Again he asked them, Who is it you want? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
8 I told you that I am he, Jesus answered. If you are looking for me, then let these men go.
9 This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: I have not lost one of those you gave me.
10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. (The
servant's name was Malchus.)
11 Jesus commanded Peter, Put your sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?
Jesus Taken to Annas
12 Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him
13 and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
14 Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be good if one man died for the people.
Peter's First Denial
15 Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the high priest, he went
with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard,
16 but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to
the girl on duty there and brought Peter in.
17 You are not one of his disciples, are you? the girl at the door asked Peter. He replied, I am not.
18 It was cold, and the servants and officials stood round a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing
with them, warming himself.
The High Priest Questions Jesus
19 Meanwhile, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
20 I have spoken openly to the world, Jesus replied. I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews
come together. I said nothing in secret.
21 Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.
22 When Jesus said this, one of the officials near by struck him in the face. Is this the way you answer the high
priest? he demanded.
23 If I said something wrong, Jesus replied, testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike
me?
24 Then Annas sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.
Peter's Second and Third Denials
25 As Simon Peter stood warming himself, he was asked, You are not one of his disciples, are you? He denied it, saying,
I am not.
26 One of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, challenged him, Didn't I see
you with him in the olive grove?
27 Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a cock began to crow.
Jesus Before Pilate
28 Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid
ceremonial uncleanness the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.
29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, What charges are you bringing against this man?
30 If he were not a criminal, they replied, we would not have handed him over to you.
31 Pilate said, Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law. But we have no right to execute anyone, the Jews
objected.
32 This happened so that the words Jesus had spoken indicating the kind of death he was going to die would be fulfilled.
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, Are you the king of the Jews?
34 Is that your own idea, Jesus asked, or did others talk to you about me?
35 Am I a Jew? Pilate replied. It was your people and your chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have
done?
36 Jesus said, My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews.
But now my kingdom is from another place.
37 You are a king, then! said Pilate. Jesus answered, You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I
was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.
38 What is truth? Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, I find no basis for a charge against
him.
39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release
'the king of the Jews'?
40 They shouted back, No, not him! Give us Barabbas! Now Barabbas had taken part in a rebellion.
John 19
Jesus Sentenced to be Crucified
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe
3 and went up to him again and again, saying, Hail, king of the Jews! And they struck him in the face.
4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no
basis for a charge against him.
5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, Here is the man!
6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, Crucify! Crucify! But Pilate answered, You
take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.
7 The Jews insisted, We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid,
9 and he went back inside the palace. Where do you come from? he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Do you refuse to speak to me? Pilate said. Don't you realise I have power either to free you or to crucify you?
11 Jesus answered, You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed
me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.
12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, If you let this man go, you are no friend
of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement
(which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
14 It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour. Here is your king, Pilate said to the Jews.
15 But they shouted, Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him! Shall I crucify your king? Pilate asked. We have no king
but Caesar, the chief priests answered.
16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.
The Crucifixion
So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.
17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).
18 Here they crucified him, and with him two others— one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.
20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written
in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, Do not write 'The King of the Jews', but that this man claimed to
be king of the Jews.
22 Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with
the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 Let's not tear it, they said to one another. Let's decide by lot who will get it. This happened that the scripture
might be fulfilled which said,
They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
So this is what the soldiers did.
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing near by, he said to his mother, Dear woman,
here is your son,
27 and to the disciple, Here is your mother. From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
The Death of Jesus
28 Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, I am thirsty.
29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and
lifted it to Jesus' lips.
30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, It is finished. With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jews did not want the
bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
32 The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of
the other.
33 But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
35 The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies
so that you also may believe.
36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of his bones will be broken,
37 and, as another scripture says, They will look on the one they have pierced.
The Burial of Jesus
38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly
because he feared the Jews. With Pilate's permission, he came and took the body away.
39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh
and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
40 Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with
Jewish burial customs.
41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no-one had ever
been laid.
42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was near by, they laid Jesus there.
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The Passion: Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
Extract 21
Jesus
Look with what cruelty these hardened men surround Me. Some pull the Cross and lay it on the ground; others tear off My
clothes that adhere to the wounds that open again and blood oozes out.
Look, beloved children, at how much shame and confusion I suffer seeing Myself this way before that immense mob…. What
pain for My soul!
The executioners tear off My tunic and toss lots for it; this tunic with which My Mother covered Me with so much care
during My childhood, and had grown in size as I had. What would be My Mother’s sorrow as she contemplates this scene?
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The Passion: Jesus Pronounces His Last Words
Extract 22
Jesus
My daughter, you have heard and seen My sufferings, accompany Me till the end and share My pain.
My Cross is now raised. Here is the hour of the Redemption of the world!
I am the spectacle of jeers for the mob… but I am also admired and loved by the souls. This Cross, up to now an
instrument of torture where criminals expired, is going to be, from now on, the light and peace of the world.
Sinners will find forgiveness and life in My Holy Scriptures. My Blood will wash and erase the stains of their sins. The
pure souls will come to My Sacred Wounds to refresh themselves and to burn in My Love. In them they will take refuge and
will make their dwelling forever.
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The Passion: The Resurrection of Jesus
Extract 23
Jesus
Holy Friday was followed by the glorious dawn of the Sunday of the Resurrection. If I have decided not to destroy the
world, it means that I want to renew it and rejuvenate it. The old trees need to lose their leaves and be pruned so that
they can give new sprouts. And the old branches, the dry leaves, are to be burned.
Separate the young goats from the lambs, so that they can find ready and well prepared fertile pastures where they can
appease their taste and drink from the clean fountains of water of Salvation… It is My redeeming Blood that waters the
arid lands that have become the deserts of the world of souls. And this Blood will always run over the earth as long as
there is one man to save.
Beloved spouse, I desire what you do not want, but I can do what you could not obtain. Your mission is to have Me loved
by souls, and to teach them to live with Me. I have not died on the Cross, and gone through a thousand tortures to
populate Hell with souls, but rather, to populate Heaven with chosen ones.
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The Passion: God The Father
Extract 24
God The Father
I see My Son, trembling in the shadows of Gethsemane, coming down from Heaven and taking the shape and substance of My
creature, who thought and still thinks he can rebel against his Creator. The man, that lonely and confused man, is the
designated victim, and as such, with His own Blood, has had to cleanse all of humanity which He represents. He trembles
and is horrified at feeling Himself covered, even seeing Himself dominated, by the inconceivable mass of sins that had
to be taken from the darkened consciences of millions and millions of dirty creatures.
Poor Son of Mine, Love has taken You to this and now you are frightened by it. Who should Glorify You in Heaven when,
radiantly, you come back to it? Can any creature give You praise worthy of You, love worthy of You? And what is the
praise and love of man, of millions of men, in comparison with the Love in which You have accepted the most tremendous
of tests that could ever exist on earth? No, My beloved Son, nobody but Your Father could equal You in Love, nobody but
I, who in My Spirit of Love, can praise and Love You for Your sacrifice that night.
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The Passion: The Sorrows of the Virgin Mary
Extract 25
The Blessed Mother
Many prophets spoke about me: they prophesied that it was necessary for me to suffer to become worthy of being the
Mother of God. On earth they anticipated knowledge of me but it had to be in a very guarded way. Later the Evangelists
talked about me, especially Luke, my beloved physician - more of souls than of bodies. Afterwards some devotions were
started that had as a basis the sorrows and pains I suffered. And thus it is commonly believed and thought that I
experienced seven main sorrows.
My children, your Mother has rewarded and will reward the efforts and love that you have had for me. But as Jesus did, I
want to talk to you more extensively about my sorrows. Then, you will talk to your brethren about them, and at last
everyone will imitate Me. Because of what I suffered, I am continuously praising Jesus and seek nothing but only that He
be glorified in me.
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EDITOR’S NOTES: Katya. Rivas, has received an official imprimatur from the Catholic Church for several books she says she was
instructed to write by Jesus Christ, Mary and various Angels. Scoop’s extract, above, comes from Rivas’s book “The
Passion”. Readers can sign up to recieve daily extracts from Katya Rivas's writings by email at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dailykatya/
In 1999 Katya Rivas was the subject of a top-rating documentary show hosted by Mike Willessee (see Scoop TV review - Jesus Christ Tells FOXNews He Wants To Hug World and Scoop Images ). More recently Rivas says she was instructed by Jesus to have her books translated and published on the internet with
the intention of having the books distributed to as wide an audience as possible. Several of the books can now be read
online at http://www.greatcrusade.org/, and more are coming soon. In August 2002 Rivas visited Wellington New Zealand and met with Scoop Editor Alastair
Thompson. See… Scoop Feature: Jesus's Secretary Visits Wellington
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