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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
The Passion: Jesus Is Crowned with Thorns
Extract 16
Jesus
In the Will of Father I have lived days of intense sadness without complaining but accepting what the Father wanted to
make Me feel. When I was apprehended in the Garden, My accusers were quick with every lie and I, without the least
resistance, allowed them to take Me to wherever they wanted to. And when they wanted to encircle My Head with the crown
of thorns, I bowed My Head without resistance, because I took everything from the hands of He who had sent Me into the
world.
When the arms of those cruel men were exhausted by the force of discharging blows against My Body, they placed over My
head the crown woven with branches of thorns, and parading before Me they said: “So you are King? We salute you!”
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The Passion: Barrabas Is Set Free
Extract 17
Jesus
Pilate was looking for ways to free Me. He was worried because of his wife’s warning and confused between the guilt of
his conscience and the fear that the people would initiate a riot against him. In the pitiable state in which I found
Myself, he exposed Me to the sight of the mob proposing that he give Me liberty and condemn Barabbas, a famous thief and
murderer, in My place. The people answered in one voice: “Let him die and have Barabbas set free!”
Souls who love Me, see how they have compared Me to a criminal, how they have lowered Me more than the most perverse of
men. Listen to the furious shouts projected against Me. See with what fury they ask for My death. Did I refuse to go
through such shameful confrontation? No, on the contrary, I embraced it for My Love of souls and to show them that this
Love did not only take Me to death, but to the most ignominious death…
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The Passion: Jesus Forgives Even the Greatest Sinners
Extract 18
Jesus
Pilate has pronounced sentence. My little children, consider attentively how My Heart suffered…
After Judas surrendered Me in the Garden of Olives, he wandered off and ran away as a fugitive without being able to
silence the shouts of his conscience, which accused him of the most horrible sacrilege. When the news of My death
sentence reached his ears, he gave in to the most terrible despair and hung himself.
Who will be able to understand the intense pain in My Heart when I saw that soul throw himself to eternal damnation? He
who had spent three years in the School of My Love learning My doctrine, receiving My teaching, and many times hearing
My lips forgive the greatest sinners.
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The Passion: Jesus on His Way to Calvary
Extract 19
Jesus
Let us continue, My little daughter. Follow Me on the way to Calvary, overwhelmed under the weight of the Cross….
While My Heart was absorbed with sadness for the eternal loss of Judas, the cruel executioners, insensitive to My pain,
put over My wounded shoulders the hard and heavy Cross on which I was to consummate the mystery of the Redemption of the
world.
Contemplate Me, Angels from Heaven. See the Creator of all the marvels; the God to whom all the heavenly spirits render
adoration; the God walking towards Calvary and carrying on His shoulders the holy and blessed log; the God who is going
to receive His last breath.
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The Passion: Jesus Is Helped to Carry the Cross
Extract 20
Jesus
I am on My way to Calvary. Those wicked men, fearing to see Me die before reaching the end, look for someone to help Me
carry the Cross, and from the vicinity they seized a man called Simon.
Look at him behind Me, helping Me carry the Cross, and above all consider two things: this man lacks good will, and is a
mercenary because if he comes and shares with Me the weight of the Cross, it is because he has been requisitioned. For
that reason, when he feels too tired, he lets the weight fall more on Me and thus, I fall to the ground twice.
This man helps Me carry part of the Cross but not My entire Cross.
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EDITOR’S NOTES: Through the Christian season of Lent 2006, Scoop will be publishing a series of daily reflections on the Passion from
Bolivian author Katya Rivas. Rivas, has received an official imprimatur from the Catholic Church for several books..
Readers can sign up to recieve daily extracts from Katya Rivas's writings by email at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dailykatya/
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