The First Sorrowful Mystery: the Agony in the Garden
And his sweat became as drops of blood running down upon the ground. And rising from prayer he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping. (Luke 22: 44-45)
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In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus felt the weight of the sins of the world across all time, yet the apostles were not able to support Him in His last hours because they kept falling asleep.
Jesus knew that in spite of all the suffering He was about to submit to, there would be many souls who would reject Him and thereby lose their salvation forever. The loss of those souls tore at the Heart of Jesus. All this combined with the feeling of abandonment, meant Jesus suffered so much that He began to sweat drops of blood.
Let us comfort Jesus in the sufferings in the garden, and realise that Jesus suffered all this so our sins could be forgiven. Throughout all of the passion of Jesus Mary also suffered knowing that the time she had dreaded for so many years had now begun. But Her role was also to freely surrender to the sufferings and offer all united with Jesus. We too are called to unite our sufferings with the passion of Jesus so that we may experience the joy of Resurrection.
