On our Lord’s triple prayer, his prostration before the Father and his resignation of will
On our Lord’s triple prayer, his prostration before the Father and his resignation of will
LORD JESUS CHRIST, Sustainer of angels and Refuge of the desolate, I bless and thank you for your anguished prayer and humble prostrations. On bended knees you thrice prayed, earnestly and devoutly, to your heavenly Father that, if it be possible, the chalice of your Passion be taken from you, however, always adding: Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.1
I praise and glorify you for your strenuous combat against the horror of death and the most bitter sorrows of your Passion. But when the divine love that burned so ardently within you prevailed, it wiped out all human fear.
I praise and thank you for the abundant flow of your bloody sweat, when in your agony you prayed the more fervently—drops of which, contrary to nature, poured profusely from your body.
I adore and glorify you, Creator and Ruler of the heavenly spirits, for your humble acceptance of the angelic comfort, which you did not disdain to receive from the ministering angel. In this way you teach us that, in our weakness, we should not seek comfort in transitory things but strive for that which is heavenly.