"Whenever I pray the Holy Rosary, and come upon the first of the Sorrowful Mysteries, the Agony in the Garden, I stop to think how lonely, how abandoned, Jesus must have felt in that moment.
"Think
about it. Jesus knew that his cruel torture and gruesome death was fast
approaching. He was soon to be betrayed by one of his most trusted
followers, Judas. And the other friends he had taken with him into the
garden for moral support, Peter, James and John, couldn't even stay
awake. Jesus had asked them simply, 'Please, keep watch with me.' They
failed him."
In a recent commentary, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, of the Diocese of Providence
(RI), reflected on loneliness and its effects and on the difference between loneliness and solitude.
The Imitation of Christ: The Loneliness of Jesus (7 APR 22)
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