The Prayer of Jesus in the Garden
Meditation
The Last Supper being over, the discourse finished, and the hymn of thanksgiving said, Jesus leaves the supper-room with his eleven Apostles and enters the Garden of Gethsemane. Consider:
1. Jesus is in the habit of retiring after the fatigues of the day, to pass the night in solitude and prayer. Even on this last evening of His life, He does not depart from His pious custom. Learn hence the great importance of prayer, and never neglect it, particularly in spiritual sufferings and trials. Jesus Christ knows that it is in the Garden His Passion is to commence; that in a short time His betrayer is to appear with a body of armed men to arrest Him. He foresees that in a few hours He will have to return by the same road, bound with cords, and dragged along by His enemies, and yet He does not flinch. His ardent charity leads Him onward, and urges Him to enter the Garden without delay, and begin at once to pray and to suffer. Be confounded at the sight of such an example. The slightest trouble, or the most unimportant business, distracts you from prayer, and the consequence of neglecting to strengthen your soul with that Heavenly food is that you become weak and languid, sink down, and fall into sin. Ah, my sweet Jesus, through the merits o
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