Jesus, in Your cruel scourging
in which You shed Your Blood
most painfully and abundantly,
offering it to Your Eternal Father
in payment for our impatience and our wantonness,
how is it, then,
that we do not curb our wrath and self-love?
Oh! let us try to be more patient in our trials,
to cultivate self-control,
and to bear in peace the injuries that men do to us.