16 February 2021
16 Feb 2021
Our Lord Jesus Christ praying in the GardenTuesday before Ash Wednesday
Optional memorial
Our Founder points out this memory in which we find the model of Dehonian prayer: “…Jesus, especially in the garden of olives, where he prays in solitude and recollection. Jesus prays with respect: He was heard because of his piety (Heb 5:7); he prays with ardour: With loud cries (Heb 5:7); he prays with emotion, with tears, with compunction: My Father,… not as I will, but as you will! (Mt 26:39). Pray with perseverance. In Gethsemane he began the same prayer three times” (DSP 122).
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