Christ is Still in Gethsemane

Sleeping on the job. 

and he repeats:

"Father, if you will, remove this chalice from me!" Prey to the terror and sadness of death, weighed down by sin, Jesus sweat blood.
(cf. Luke 22)

He suffers, also today,  in the members of his body: in sinners, in the persecuted, marginalized and those far from truth. Will you leave him - alone? He has taken you with him, to be a prayerful, vigilant support.  He asks, as he did to Peter, James, and John: "My soul is said unto death. Wait here and be vigilant." (cf. Mt 26).

You fall asleep like the other three, and repeat his greatest disappointment: "Are you not able to stay awake one hour with me? Wake up and pray not to fall into tempation: the spirit is willing, but hte flesh is weak."

INSIST now on the evangelization of YOURSELF, in the continuous conversion and repentance, with vigilance over your weaknesses, natural obstacles, human comforts. Acquire the mentality of God and fight the mentality of sin in all its expressions, in yourself and towards yourself.  Be purified.

Fr. Luigi Faccenda; Verso il Duemila, volume four, page 26. (House of the Immaculata, Bologna, Italy 1979)