In this episode of The Patrick Coffin Show, Patrick reflects on neurosurgeon Dr. Mark Kubala’s penetrating and accessible book, The Execution of Jesus the Christ.

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This remarkable book walks readers step-by-step through the physical realities of Christ’s Passion, explaining in clinical yet reverent detail the bodily trauma Our Lord endured “for us men and for our salvation.”

Patrick explores how Kubala’s medical insights strip away sentimentalism and confront us with the raw, historical brutality of Roman scourging, crowning, crucifixion, and death by asphyxiation. Far from morbid curiosity, this examination sharpens gratitude and deepens devotion. The Passion was not symbolic suffering. It was anatomical, measurable, and unimaginably excruciating.

Ideal reading for Lent, Kubala’s work invites meditation on the cost of sin and the magnitude of divine love. Treating the Shroud of Turin as a crime scene artifact, we can contemplate Christ’s wounds in their physical reality, and learn what caused our Savior’s death after three hours on the cross.

This commentary highlights why recovering a sober understanding of the Passion strengthens faith, intensifies repentance, and rekindles love for the Savior who embraced suffering to redeem a fallen world.

Audio book The Execution of Jesus the Christ: The Medical Cause of Our Lord’s Death In His Illegal Crucifixion by Dr. Mark Kubala https://amzn.to/4rPvMjz

Sermon by St. John Henry Cardinal Newman On the Mental Sufferings of Our Lord In His Passion: https://www.newmanreader.org/works/discourses/discourse16.html