15 Secret Torments

Wisdom 2:12-22 

12 “Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training.

Luke 11:53-54 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard, and to provoke him to speak of many things, lying in wait for him, to catch at something he might say.

13 He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord.

John 10:36 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;

Matthew 9:4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

15 the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange.

16 We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father.

17 Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;

18 for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.

19 Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance.

20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.” 

21 Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them,

22 and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hope for the wages of holiness, nor discern the prize for blameless souls;

23 for God created man for incorruption, and made him in the image of his own eternity,

24 but through the devil’s envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his party experience it.

THE FIFTEEN SECRET TORTURES AND SUFFERINGS OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST

Revealed to Sister Mary Magdalen of the Sancta Clara Order, Franciscan, who lived, died and was beatified in Rome. Jesus fulfilled the wish of this sister who desired ardently to know something about the secret tortures which He endured the night before His death.

Jesus related: “The Jews considered Me as the most wretched man living on earth so that is why”:

1. They fastened My feet with a rope and dragged Me over the stepping stones of the staircase, down into a filthy, nauseating cellar. 
2. They took off My clothing and stung My body with iron joints. 
3. They attached a rope around My body and pulled Me along the ground, from end to end. 
4. They hanged Me on a wooden piece with a slip-knot until I slipped out and fell down. Overwhelmed by this torture, I wept bloody tears. 
5. They tied Me to a post and pierced My body with various arms. 
6. They struck Me with stones and burnt Me with blazing embers and torches. 
7. They pierced Me with awls; sharp spears tore My skin, flesh and arteries out of My Body. 
8. They tied Me to a post and made Me stand, barefoot, on an incandescent metal sheet. 
9. They crowned Me with an iron crown and wrapped My eyes with the dirtiest possible rags. 
10. They made Me sit on a chair covered with sharp pointed nails, causing deep wounds in My body. 
11. They poured on My wounds liquid lead and resin, and after this torture, they pressed Me on the nailed chair so that the nails went deeper and deeper into My flesh. 
12. For shame and affliction, they drove needles into the holes of My uprooted beard. Then they tied My hands behind My back and led Me walking out of prison with strikes and blows. 
13. They threw Me upon a cross and attached Me so tightly that I could hardly breathe any more. 
14. They threw at My head as I lay on the earth and they stepped on Me, hurting my breast. Then taking a thorn from My crown, they drove it into My tongue. 
15. They poured into My mouth the most immodest excretions, as they uttered the most infamous expressions about Me.

Thеn Jеsus addеd, “My daughter, I desire that you let everyone know these Fifteen Secret Tortures, in order that everyone of them be honored. 

Anyone who daily offers Me, with love, one of these sufferings and says with fervor the following prayer, will be rewarded with eternal glory on the day of judgement.”

PRAYER

My Lord and My God, it is my unchangeable will to honor You in these FIFTEEN SECRET TORMENTS when You shed Your Precious Blood: As many times as there are grains of sand around the seas, as grains of wheat in the fields, as blades of grass in the meadows, as fruit in the orchards, as leaves on the trees, as flowers in the gardens, as stars in the sky, as angels in Heaven, as creatures on earth. 

So many thousands of times may You be glorified, praised and honored, O most love-worthy, Lord Jesus Christ – Your Holiest Heart, Your Precious Blood, Your Divine Sacrifice for mankind, the Holiest Sacrament of the Altar. The Most Holy Virgin Mary, the nine glorious choirs of Angels and the Blessed Phalanx of the Saints, from myself and everyone, now and forever, and in the eternal ages. 

In like manner, I desire, my dear Jesus, to give You thanksgiving, to serve You, to repair and atone for all ignominies, and to offer You my soul and body as Your possessions forever. 

Likewise, I regret all my sins and beg Your pardon, O my Lord and my God. And I offer You all the merits of Jesus Christ to repair everything, to obtain a happy dying-hour and the deliverance of the souls from Purgatory. 

This prayer I desire to renew at each hour until my death, O lovable Jesus. Sweet Savior, fortify my resolution and permit not that neither wretched men nor Satan destroy it. Amen.