Peace be to you.

In this lesson we continue the creed which links together the birth of our Lord his cross and his resurrection.

We consider in this lesson particularly his sufferings and resurrection.

And we begin with the agony of our Lord.

Here we are dealing with a great mystery.

Our blessed Lord suffered mentally and physically.

We touch upon first Lord suffered mentally and physically.

We touch upon first his mental sufferings in the Garden of Getsemone.

The time was immediately after the Last Supper.

There is only one recorded time in the life of our blessed Lord when he sang.

And that was after the last supper when he went out to his death.

He then told his apostles that they would all be shaken during this hour.

Remember that our Lord always spoke of his crucifixion and his sufferings in terms of

hour, his glory in terms of day.

Evil has its hour.

God has his day.

As he entered that garden into which he had often gone to pray, he told his apostles that

they would be scandalized in him that night because the shepherd

would be struck.

And they were scandalized indeed.

For a short time after the agony, they fled.

But he told them, however, when he went in,

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