Devotion to Jesus despised

1. Humiliating appearance of Jesus. Having led the Redeemer, with the insignia of the coronation, before Pilate, he felt a compassionate squeeze, and, believing that he was moving the people with pity by presenting them to him, he made Jesus go up on a lodge, as if to ask charity to the crowds ... He who had shown so much towards them, will he find it now? He also invokes it for you from the Cross, and do you pity him? You love him?

2. Here is the Man. Short words said Pilate, leaving the rest to the senses. Here is the Man, feared by you! If he was a criminal, he was chastised; if a mystifier, you scourged; if king, see its crown of joy; what murderer was ever reduced worse than he? ... And you, o Christian, know this man? He is the creator, he is your Lord, in whose hands all power is, he is the sovereign Beauty, the Goodness in essence… Adore him and fear him, although despised, but despised for your sake!

3. Jesus despised. Everyone laughed at Jesus! There was not one who, with a surge of pity, tried to protect him; it was like a worm or a rag thrown away. He sustained this punishment because of your laughter of others, of your talk against your neighbor or against angelic virtue, not to make a bad impression, not to be believed a little or naive. How many contempt for Jesus! Cry before him: love him: promise him loyalty,

PRACTICE. - Fix the Crucifix, saying: Here is a God, mistreated for my love. Makes a mortification

Prayer to Jesus Pierced

Lord Jesus, (We worship you)
allow us to contemplate your pierced side;
help us to seize the river of tenderness, of compassion, of love
that from the Cross you pour on the world.

Donate us to collect BLOOD and WATER
that flow from your side
to participate in Your Immense Passion of Love and Pain
that breaks our egoisms,
our closures, our coldness.

Give us to contemplate
in this Your Body
the signs of the Eternal and Indefectible Covenant,
to contemplate in every wound
the certainty
that this Alliance will never fail,
she will be our companion in suffering, loneliness and agony.

You healed sick and lepers,
but now you don't do a miracle for You:
remain in agony with your arms open to the Father and to the world.

And you say: You are also in the embrace of the Covenant,
you are also in the embrace of Mercy
that overcomes your fear and guilt,
you are in the embrace of this free love,
in which everything is loved, understood, forgiven.