“When God’s appointed time comes
to save mankind from the slavery of sin, we contemplate Jesus Christ in
Gethsemane, suffering in agony to the point of sweating blood ( Lk 22:44).
He spontaneously and unconditionally accepts the sacrifice which the Father is
asking of him.”
The Gospel accounts have told us where Jesus went after the Last Supper: “He went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives (Lk 22:39), on the other side of the Kedron brook (Jn 18:1), and with his Apostles, came to the place called Gethsemane (Mt 26:36; Mk 14:32). It was a garden or orchard where there was an oil-press (this is the meaning of the name Gethsemane), and it was outside the city walls of Jerusalem, to the east of the city, on the way to Bethany.
The Gospel accounts have told us where Jesus went after the Last Supper: “He went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives (Lk 22:39), on the other side of the Kedron brook (Jn 18:1), and with his Apostles, came to the place called Gethsemane (Mt 26:36; Mk 14:32). It was a garden or orchard where there was an oil-press (this is the meaning of the name Gethsemane), and it was outside the city walls of Jerusalem, to the east of the city, on the way to Bethany.
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