Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass.

Have you ever wondered about these words of Jesus in the Garden of

Ghesemai?

What does Jesus mean?

Is he at the last minute trying to get out of his passion and death on the cross? Is it as if he enters

into the garden of the Gharna Ghesema and suddenly realizes just how much suffering this is going to involve,

how painful this is going to be, how painful this is going to be, how difficult this is going to be,

and he makes a last-ditch effort to beg the father to find some other way to save the world.

Is that really what's going on here? We're going to see there's a lot happening in

this powerful scene of the agony and the garden. I want to take a look at what

Jesus meant by those words and I want to also consider what they mean for our lives because they're going to serve as a great window into how we face the challenges and the crosses that inevitably come up in our own lives.

So, are you ready to jump in? I want to give you a little bit of context to this scene.

I want you to recall how this is really the climax right now here at the Passion. Have you seen Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ? I think many of you have.

The whole movie opens up with Jesus in the Garden of Giseseini and there's this battle going on

with him and the devil.

In fact, it even portrays this snake coming to attack Jesus and at the last minute Jesus

steps on the snake and kills it.

Now, you don't read about a snake and the devil explicitly in

Matthew Mark Luke or John the Four Gospel accounts of Christ's passion but I think

well Gibson while he's definitely using artistic license here it's spot on because I do think the

Gospels are trying to show us that this is the beginning of the final showdown between Jesus and the ultimate enemy which is Satan.

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