Flower of Devotion

According to the apparitions of the Venerable Mary of Jesus:
Having cruelly bound the Divine Saviour on the Mount of Olives, they went out amid a great shout, leading the Lord in the midst and deliberately tying Him with ropes.
As a result, they often knocked him to the ground. And because His hands were bound, He fell to the ground on His Divine Face, so that He wounded Himself and was covered with all kinds of dust. When He fell, they fell on Him, beat Him with their fists and kicked Him, trampled on His Divine Person, even on His face, on His Head. All these taunts and abuses they performed with shouts of joy, derisive laughter; and as a result they fed the Lord with that abomination which Jeremiah the prophet had already wept to foretell.

Thus the ruffians came with the desecrated Savior to the house of the high priest Annas, where they presented Him as a criminal deserving of death. The high priest questioned the Divine Savior with a commanding air about His disciples and His teachings. He asked these questions, wanting to twist the answer, if only he could catch Him at least one word. But the Lord Jesus offered to the heavenly Father these humiliations also, that as a culprit He was brought before the High Priest and questioned by him about a false doctrine. With a humble expression on his face, he answered: “I have openly told the world, I have always taught in the synagogue, in the synagogue, where all the Jews gather. I didn’t say anything in secret. What do you ask Me? Ask those who have listened to what I have said, behold, they know what I have spoken.” Though the Saviour’s answer was full of wisdom, nevertheless one of the high priest’s servants approached with terrible insolence, raised his hand, and slapped the Saviour’s holy Divine Face. At the same time, he admonished him, saying: “Is it fitting to answer the high priest in this way?” The Lord accepted this offense without limits, praying to the Heavenly Father for the offending one, and was ready, if necessary, to slap the other cheek to accomplish what He had taught. And in order that the blind and remembered servant might not be without humiliation and shame, the Lord answered him gently: “If I have spoken wrong, bear witness to it, and if it is good, why do you beat me?” O games worthy of admiration for the spirits of heaven! The Son of God, out of love for mankind, allows an impious servant to slap him in the face of His Most Holy Face.
Immediately afterwards the Divine Saviour, bound in force, was led to Caiaphas, Annas’ son-in-law. The high priest Caiaphas, surrounded by the Pharisees, sat in the high priest’s chair, waiting for the Savior. When they saw Him bound before them like a gentle lamb, they all burst into loud, derisive laughter, for they now had Him in their power. Now they were looking with the high priest for false testimony against Jesus, that they might deliver Him up to death. However, the testimonies of the false witnesses did not agree with each other. Then two more false witnesses came forward, saying that they had heard from his own lips that he would be able to destroy the temple built by human hands, and build another in three days. To all these slanders the Savior did not utter a word.
Caiaphas, seeing him so patiently silent, rose up and said, “Why do you not answer so many testimonies that speak against you?” But the Lord made no answer to this question, for Caiaphas and the others not only refused to believe Him, but had a cunning intention of enslaving the Savior with an answer which they might twist according to their own thoughts, in order to justify their dealings with Jesus before the people.
And now Caiaphas shouted at the Lord with great ferocity, and said, “I swear by the living God that you will tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” The Savior answered, “Thou hast said, I am! But I say unto you, henceforth ye shall see the Son of man in no other way than seated at the right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven.”
Then the high priest tore his garments full of anger and said: “He has blasphemed against God! Do we still need witnesses? What do you think?” And they cried out, “He is guilty of death!” At the same time, those who shouted, tempted by Satan, fell upon the mildest Lamb and poured out their fierceness of the devil upon Him. Some slapped Him, others kicked Him, others pulled His hair, or spat on Him in His venerable Face; still others struck him on the neck with their fists. Never had such extreme pain been inflicted on man as was inflicted on the Savior at that time.