Third Sorrowful Mystery: The Crowning with Thorns

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him.
Matthew 27:27

Our Father…

They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him.
Matthew 27:28

Hail Mary …

Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand.
Matthew 27:29a

Hail Mary …

And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
Matthew 27:29b

Hail Mary …

They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head.
Matthew 27:30

Hail Mary …

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him.
Matthew 27:31

Hail Mary …

Lord, my God, I call out by day;
at night I cry aloud in your presence.
Psalm 88:2

Hail Mary …

You plunged me into the bottom of the pit,
into the darkness of the abyss.
Psalm 88:7

Hail Mary …

All day I call on you, Lord;
I stretch out my hands to you.
Psalm 88:10bc

Hail Mary …

Why do you reject me, Lord?
Why hide your face from me?
Psalm 88:15

Hail Mary …

All the day they surge round like a flood;
from every side they close in on me.
Psalm 88:18

Hail Mary …

Because of you companions shun me;
my only friend is darkness.
Psalm 88:19

Glory Be…