Monday, April 2, 2007

Agony, Gethsemane

“It is the long history of the world, and God alone can bear the load of it. Hopes blighted, vows broken, lights quenched, warnings scorned, opportunities lost, the innocent betrayed, the young hardened, the penitent relapsing, the willfulness of passion, the obduracy of pride, the tyranny of habit, the canker of remorse, the wasting fever of care, the anguish of shame, the pining of disappointment, the sickness of despair: such cruel, such pitiable spectacles, such heart-rendering, revolting, detestable, maddening scenes, all are before Him now; They are upon and in Him.”
-----John Henry Newman
“The Mental Suffering of Our Lord
In His Passion.”

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