JESUS SUFFFERED ADN DIED

• Attachment is a strong reciprocal emotional bond between an infant and a primary caregiver

  
• Freud's superego is the moral component of the psyche, representing internalized societal values and standards
• Jesus suffered and died for our sins

  
• Objectives of the study:

  • Discuss how Jesus suffered and died for our sins
  • Find meaning in pain and suffering
  • Compose a prayer asking God for strength in times of afflictions
• Passion refers to the suffering and death of Jesus
• The Rosary focuses on individual moments of the Passion, inviting the faithful to contemplate them in their hearts and relive them
• Guide Questions:

  • Why were the Jewish Leaders hostile toward Jesus?
  • How did Jesus fulfill the Jewish Passover meal uniquely on the night before he died?
• Blasphemy is the act of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk
• Sanhedrin were assemblies of either twenty-three or seventy-one elders
• Passover Feast commemorates Israel's deliverance from slavery in Egypt
• Paschal Mystery includes Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection
• Jesus was examined 5 times during his trial by Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, Herod, and Pilate again, only to be condemned at the end
• The religious authorities were clear from the start that Jesus had to die
• The final verdict of the Trial by the Sanhedrin was that Jesus had committed blasphemy for claiming to be the Messiah, the Son of God
• Blasphemy, by Jewish law, was punishable by death
• Pilate knew Jesus was innocent but gave in to the demands of the religious leaders out of fear of consequences
• Jesus's sufferings took their historical form from being rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, who handed him to be mocked, scourged, and crucified
• The Death of Jesus on the cross shows how much he loves us
• Jesus was examined 5 times:

  1. Annas

  2. Caiaphas

  3. Pilate

  4. Herod

  5. Pilate (again)