Ave Maria Meditations
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
