After relentless torments, even a few moments of relief for Jesus would have been a priceless gift from the Father. Anne Catherine saw in her vision, Our Lord was left alone in a filthy dungeon cell with a single sliver of a hole opening to the sky. The morning had just broken and a solitary sunbeam, descended from heaven on His broken body, a ray from His Father's face. His hour had come. This day was the pivot on which all human history turned.

Then turning to the disciples [Jesus] said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. ... I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished!" - Luke 10:23-24; 12:50

With excerpts from:

• The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich (https://bit.ly/3kaeP6l)
• The Mystical City of God by Ven. Mary of Agreda (https://bit.ly/3IhySaO)

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