How to Announce this Mystery When Praying the Rosary:
IN ENGLISH
In the Third Sorrowful Mystery, let us contemplate the Crowning with Thorns of Our Lord Jesus Christ and seek mortification of pride.
IN LATIN
In Tertio Mysterio Doloroso, Coronationem Spinis Domini Nostri Iesu Christi contemplemur, et mortificationem superbiae petamus.
The Source or Sources of this Mystery:
2 And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it upon his head; and they put on him a purple garment. 3 And they came to him, and said: Hail, king of the Jews; and they gave him blows.