The Agony in the Garden

He appealed to His apostles for the first holy hour of prayer when He took them into the garden in the middle of the night and asked them to watch and pray with Him…

The agony (Jesus) suffered was the realization that the Holy Eucharist would be rejected by so many and appreciated by so few. To reject the Holy Eucharist is to reject Jesus Himself.  He saw down through the ages how He would be left alone…in so many tabernacles of the world when He comes to bring so much love and so many blessings.  Few would believe in His Real Presence and fewer still respond to be loved in the Blessed Sacrament…Your holy hour consoles Him for those who do not love Him and wins countless graces for many to be converted to Him.

Prayer:  Conscious of Your loving Prudence, Jesus, we unite ourselves deeply to Your attitude in the garden when You prayed: “Father, not My will, but Your will be done.”  During this decade we offer You the perfect love of Mary to make up for what is lacking in our own hearts and to repair for all of the rejection that You receive from the world in this Sacrament of Your love.

Fr. Martin Lucia

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Apr 03, 2020, on how to deal with stress, which is so prominent in our world today with the pandemic.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Friday 5th Week of Lent – Wkdy
Readings: 
1st: jer 20:10-13
Resp: psa 18:2-3, 3-4, 5-6, 7 0
Gsp: joh 10:31-42

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Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate Thee flee from before Thy Face. (Ps 68:1)

Follow Jesus, who after the last supper is going to the garden of olives to prepare Himself for His passion. He prays a long time, lasting three hours. His soul is given up to sadness. From time to time, He interrupts His prayer to go to His disciples to seek a little strength and consolation but He does not find it: “I have sought for someone to console Me and I have not found anyone.”

The sorrowful condition of His holy Face reflects all the impressions of His soul: it appears sad, desolating, trembling; it sheds tears, sorrowful groans escape from His lips. See how, after having prayed on His knees, eyes humbly cast down, in order to give more intensity and forever to His prayer, the Savior prostrated Himself with His Face to the ground. Contemplate this divine Face lowered even into the dust.

At this moment the anguish of the Man-God redoubles; He feels a kind of mortal agony; a mysterious sweat, a sweat a blood bathes His Face and trickles down His forehead then drop by drop on the ground where He is prostrated. An angel appears to strengthen Him; strengthened by the heavenly aid Jesus rises and accept the chalice which His Father offers to Him. He will drink it with love and to the end.

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