24B SE Last Supper and Agony

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PREPARATION
Let us enter into the presence of God.
1. Opening prayer:
Lord my God, I offer to you all my thoughts, affections, desires, acts, dryness, struggles, etc. that with all of them I may give you greater glory, be converted, and save my soul. Grant me the grace that all my intentions, actions and operations be purely ordered to the service and praise of your divine majesty.
Composition of the prayer
The story:
Christ, after celebrating the Last Supper with his disciples, descended with the eleven disciples from Mount Zion to the Kidron Valley. Eight of the disciples were left in a place in the valley, and the other three in a part of the garden. Then Jesus began his prayer, and his sweat turned into drops of blood. He three times prayed to his Father and went to wake up the disciples from his sleep.
Composition of the place:
Imagine the three scenes:
1. the Last Supper,
2. the walk to Gethsemane and
3. the Agony in the Garden.
Second Petition:
Lord, help me to contemplate you in your Passion, your Sorrow, and your Pain. Grant me tears and internal pain to accompany you in this bitter hour, which you suffered for love of me.
BODY OF CONTEMPLATION
THE SADNESS OF OUR LORD
DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART
The apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret of Alacoque: Jesus manifests his deep sadness for the ingratitude of men and women.
NOT MY WILL, BUT YOURS BE DONE
In Gethsemane the Lord surrendered his human will, which recoiled at the sight of the Passion, to the will of the Father, who asked him to sacrifice himself out of love for him, and for the redemption of the world.
EFFECT OF THE PRAYER
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” From Gethsemane Jesus rose to embrace his Passion and Death. He walked into it as a King to his Coronation ceremony, and in the midst of the madness of all other characters in the story of the Passion and Crucifixion, he seemed to be the only sane person. In spite of the suffering, Jesus lived it with an incredible serenity and self-possession.
“My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready.”
CONCLUSIVE ACTS
We don't have much more to say. The last thing is that these considerations about the savior's sorrows should undoubtedly lead us to console Jesus.
Pope Pius XI in his Encyclical Misserentissimus Redemptor:
“[…]For any one who has great love of God, if he will look back, may dwell in meditation on Christ, and see Him laboring for man, sorrowing, suffering the greatest hardships, "for us men and for our salvation," well-nigh worn out with sadness, with anguish, nay "bruised for our sins" (Isaias liii, 5), and healing us by His bruises. And the minds of the pious meditate on all these things the more truly, because the sins of men and their crimes committed in every age were the cause why Christ was delivered up to death, and now also they would of themselves bring death to Christ, joined with the same griefs and sorrows, since each sin renews the passion of Our Lord: "Crucifying again to themselves the Son of God, and making him a mockery" (Hebrews vi, 6). Now if, because of our sins also which were as yet in the future, but were foreseen, the soul of Christ became sorrowful unto death, it cannot be doubted that then, too, already He derived somewhat of solace from our reparation, which was likewise foreseen, when "there appeared to Him an angel from heaven" (Luke xxii, 43), in order that His Heart, oppressed with weariness and anguish, might find consolation. And so even now, in a wondrous yet true manner, we can and ought to console that Most Sacred Heart which is continually wounded by the sins of thankless men, […] Christ Himself, by the mouth of the Psalmist complains, […] "My Heart has expected reproach and misery, and I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none" (Psalm lxviii, 21). (n.13).
Colloquium:
EXAMINATION OF THE PRAYER TIME
Now take time to reflect on you time of prayer. Write down the answers to the following questions:
1. Did you have a good prayer time, or did you have a not-so-good prayer time?
2. Did you pray for the whole hour or did you shorten the prayer time?
3. Did you have a suitable place and time?
4. Did you overcome any difficulties?
5. Are you excessively attached to something? Does this attachment prevents you from making your Spiritual Exercises well? Does it prevent you from doing God’s will?
6. Have I carried out this Spiritual Exercise with great enthusiasm and generosity, or at least asked for that grace?
7. Did I experience consolation or desolation? What do I need to do now?
AMEN.
Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.
Pray an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be.

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So beautiful