The First Sorrowful Mystery
using quotes from the Saints
THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN
| Meditation: | St. Alphonsus said: "He saw Himself affronted by his own disciples. One of them betrays and sells Him for thirty pieces. Another denies Him many times, protesting publicly that he knows Him not; and thus attesting that he was ashamed to have known Him in the past. The other disciples, then, at seeing Him taken and bound, all fly and abandon Him."
For all those times I've betrayed You, Lord Jesus, denied knowing You, felt ashamed to show my Christianity, or abandoned Your guidance because I didn't like it, I pray.... |