[Salvation]

I've been looking for documentation on the claim of the wounds Christ received during his Passion and Death.

Finally found it.

[Salvation]

OK, everyone. Now tell me that Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ" depicts and exxageration of the passion of Christ.

[cpforlife.org]

Thanks for the PING.

Please see #7. You mentioned looking for documentation. Outside of Scripture and St. Bridget, THE DOLOROUS PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST by Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) is probably the most important. It is on-line at http://www.emmerich1.com/DOLOROUS_PASSION_OF_OUR_LORD_JESUS_CHRIST.htm

I heard Mel Gibson mention Emmerich often as a major source, but not St. Bridget.

The image below is from the movie & must have been based on the images from St. Bridgets book (post7). They are too similar--IMO.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/articles/news/?id=040227potc.htm

[Desdemona]

THANK YOU

I knew the number was huge, but I couldn't remember how big.

[Aquinasfan]

Excellent.

This conforms with the image on the Shroud of Turin.

I've looked at this image hundreds of times, but never "saw" the lash strokes, at least not in the same way that I do now after having seen "The Passion of the Christ." They're there.

The image on the Shroud corresponds exactly with the movie's depiction of the scourging. It's breathtaking. My previous understanding of the scourging and crucifixion has simply been obliterated.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for posting this. I used this book for devotions (and I got it from Tan) for several years.

Very effective...

[dansangel]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this.....

[Viva Christo Rey]

Thanks for posting the prayers.

Just a small note, the prayers have been edited by whomever compiled them to make them "politically correct".

It just "frosts" me to have the person pass them off as the words of Our Lord, when the person refuses to let them stand as He revealed them.

[Coleus]

Thanks for posting this, I used to pray those prayers and never finished a full year.

[TotusTuus]

This is a quote from another posted article, The Passion of The Christ and Anne Catherine Emmerich and Mary of Agreda , (NYer) which 'Aquinasfan' though important to note over there, and I think is germaine here as well for the purpose of good Catholic sobriety:

"As St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John of the Cross make clear, however, although God can give new lights, most private revelation is "constructed" from the building materials of the memory and knowledge of the person. This means that the mystic's own religious, cultural and educational influences help determine how the visions are presented to them. This accounts, for example, for the variety in the details of the same events among different mystics. Some details may have been supplied by God, others taken from the presuppositions of the mystic. Since God's purpose is not to improve upon Scripture but to inflame the will with love, the source of the details are ultimately irrelevant to that purpose. In the end, the Church judges the authenticity of such writings not by these details but whether anything is contrary to faith and morals. It does not, therefore, guarantee that every detail is true, only that it is theologically safe."

It is in no way, shape, or form, meant to be construed as an attack on St. Bridget by me ;-)

[Dajjal]

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