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The agony in the garden

The Word:
Leaving there, he went, as he so
often did, to Mount Olives. The disc:ples followed him. When they
arrived at the place, he said, "Pray that you don't give in to temptation."
He pulled away from them about a stone's throw, knelt down, and prayed,
'Father, remove this cup from me. But please, not what I want. What
do you want?" At once an angel from heaven was at his side, strengthening
him. He prayed on all the harder. Sweat, wrung from him like drops
of blood, poured off his face.
Nevertheless, he placed his will in
the will of his Father, saying: Father, let your will be done; not
as I will, but as you will. His Father's will was such that his blessed
and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should
offer himself through his own blood as a sacrifice and oblation on
the altar of the cross: not for himself through whom all things were
made, but for sins, leaving us an example that we might follow his
footprints.
And he wishes all of us to be saved through him.
Letter to all the Faithful
Once it was the day of the Most Holy
Supper on which our Lord loved his own unto the end. Towards evening,
as the hour of the Lord's agony drew near, Clare, in sorrow and sadness,
shut herself up in the seclusion of her cell. In prayer she followed
the Lord in his prayer, and in soul sorrowful even unto death felt
and shared the sorrow of Christ.
Life of St.Clare. Ch. 21.
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Scripture
quotations from the New Testament taken from THE
MESSAGE. Copyright © by
Eugene Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995. Used with the very kind
permission of the NayPress Publishing Group.
- Quotations from St Clare mainly
from Regis Armstrong OFM Cap Clare, the Early Documents.
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Quotations
from St Francis mainly from Regis Armstrong OFM Cap Francis,
the Early Documents I
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The Illustrations
of the Way of the Passion are icons from our public chapel,
designed and painted at Ty Main Duw
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