The Crucifixion of Jesus

https://www.amazon.com/Crucifixion-Jesus-Completely-Revised-Expanded/dp/1590770706

The Crowning of Thorns of Jesus: 

Dr Zugibe said that the crowning of thorns was perhaps the most painful pain since it seriously wounded the trigeminal nerve which is like an electric wire…

The trigeminal nerve is the largest cranial nerve and is the great sensory nerve of the head and face, and the motor nerve of the muscles of mastication.

The thorns, affecting the Trigeminal nerve, the 5th cranial nerve and it is the main nerve of the face responsible for sensation (e.g. heat and pain). The last picture shows clearly where the trigeminal nerve innervates the face (with the different colours). Note that every region of the face is innervated by the trigeminal nerve, top of head, nose, mouth, sides of face, cheeks etc (!) 
This means that every time Jesus spoke, it must have been very very painful - like many electric shocks(!) 

It is really really wonderful that Jesus managed to speak at all throughout His passion (after scourging, talking to P.Pilate, way of the cross a few times, on the cross (7 times!!) amidst all the other pains caused by all the other tortures Jesus had to go through: scourging, carrying the cross, removal of thorns and putting it back on, the actual crucifixion. This makes all of Jesus's words during his Passion really really really precious!
Here, the SEVEN, the words that sparkled faith throughout the whole world! 

Jesus, Mary, Joseph, I love You; Save Souls! Amen.


I have been also watching and reading and hearing about why people need to wear masks or not and the arguments surrounding it. 
I am writing some considerations, for readers to think about:

Wearing of (normal disposable) masks can be considered a sacrifice on the part of the wearer of the mask, why? 
(1) because the wearer of the mask is not protected from the Covid-19 virus or any much other virus - the mask also needs to allow you to breathe and viruses are so so so so so tiny anyway, they can get through the pore sizes and the air spaces all around the mask
(2) if you wear a mask, you are protecting others from whatever you may spit / sneeze / cough / produce 
- anyway, all of us have a microbiome on our surfaces and we have thousands beyond thousands of microorganisms on our skin and inside our GI tract etc everywhere on and in our body - and if you wear a mask, you drastically help to decrease the spread of all the icky things that come out of our bodies ... thereby protecting others from what you yourself have in as much as the mask can prevent / decrease the spread of aerosols that we generate 
HENCE, wearing a mask is by far a very sacrificial thing that we can do FOR others, but NOT for ourselves. 

The Seven Last Words of Jesus & Some Thoughts

[31] For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry? 

Quia si in viridi ligno haec faciunt, in arido quid fiet?

said Jesus to the Filiae Jerusalem 

with His Cross, bearing heavily on His most precious, yet bruised and scourged body,

on His Way to Mount Calvary

The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, Mount of Olives

somewhere beyond the Kidron Valley, 

on the western slope of the Mount of Olives, Gethsemane 

(gath shemani: "oil press")

hematidrosis, hemorrhagia percutem: an excretion of blood or blood pigments in the sweat. (Stedman's Medical Dictionary)

- writing for this blog post is still underway (during period of Lent) ... -

- material taken from various sources ... one of which: The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Forensic Inquiry, Second Edition by Frederick Zugibe M.D., Ph.D - 

Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Anne, Therese; I love You; Save Souls

Jesu mitis et humilis corde, Fac cor nostrum secundum Cor tuum. (ter)

Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori