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Let us contemplate, in this Mystery, how our Lord Jesus Christ was most cruelly scourged in the house of Pilate; the number of stripes inflicted upon Him being, it is said, about five thousand.

Our Father. Hail Mary, ten times. Glory be to the Father, etc.

O Mother of God, Fountain of patience, through those stripes thy only and dearly beloved Son vouchsafed to suffer for us, obtain of Him for us grace to mortify our rebellious senses, to avoid the occasion of sin, and to be ready to suffer anything rather than offend God. Amen.

Let us contemplate, in this Mystery, how those cruel ministers of Satan plaited a Crown of Thorns, and cruelly pressed it on the Sacred Head of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our Father. Hail Mary, ten times. Glory be to the Father, etc.