prayer.



CHAPTER I.

Jesus in the Garden of Olives.



When Jesus left the supper-room with the eleven Apostles, after the
institution of the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar, his soul was deeply
oppressed and his sorrow on the increase. He led the eleven, by an
unfrequented path, to the Valley of Josaphat. As they left the house, I
saw the moon, which was not yet quite at the full, rising in front of
the mountain.

Our Divine Lord; as he wandered with his Apostles about the valley,
told them that here he should one day return to judge the world, but
not in a state of poverty and humiliation, as he then was, and that men
would tremble with fear, and cry: 'Mountains, fall upon us!' His disciples
did not understand him, and thought, by no means for the first time
that night, that weakness and exhaustion had affected his brain. He
said to them again: 'All you shall be scandalised in me this night. For
it is written: I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK
SHALL BE DISPERSED. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before
you into Galilee.'

The Apostles were still in some degree animated by the spirit of
enthusiasm and devotion with which their reception of the Blessed