537 bibliografia [f.176r] PART V Daily Meditations Morning: On the Passion of the Lord Evening: On the Last Things 1. MONDAY MORNING Christ’s prayer in the Garden (of Gethsemane). 1. Consider that after that Supper of the new Passover full of the most profound mysteries, Christ the Lord left His most Holy Mother with all of the disciples and went out to the Garden of Gethsemane, taking along only three of them. There, on the hill, kneeling humbly and with His whole body bent toward the ground, He fervently poured out His prayers to the Father. And first He perceived all the torments awaiting Him. Having pictured them in mind, He underwent such a change that He began to be afraid, to grow weary, to become pale and to be saddened. For although His divinity, identical with the will of the Father, sought the Passion as soon as possible, His humanity, left to itself, feared to endure these things, which, from the outside in the consideration of the mind, would be most horrible. And thus, with fear and desire fighting each other, Jesus burst out at last into these words: “My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from [M]e” (Mt 26:39). But when an angel appeared to Him, fortified Him, and declared the will of the eternal Father (although being God He already knew it), He exclaimed with the greatest resignation: “not as I will, but as [Y]ou will” (Mt 26:39).
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