This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good conversation and the Rosary.

Welcome to our Rosary meditation.

Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Let's call to mind in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for, especially for Margo, a young

woman critically injured in a car accident last June. We pray for Margot to wake up.

Today is Holy Thursday.

Jesus is not a mythical figure and the events of Holy Week are not a legend.

Jesus is real and he is God and God is eternal.

To be eternal means for God there is no past nor future. There is only the present moment.

Therefore, every event from the life of Jesus remains present.

The place this truth strikes me the most is the Garden of Gisemene.

With each pilgrimage I lead to the Holy Land, we have a Eucharistic holy hour in the garden of

Gisemini, with the eucharist placed in a monstrance

on the rock of agony where Jesus prostrate himself in prayer, where he

he sweat blood and where the angel came to minister to him.

On holy Thursday night, the night before his crucifixion, what Jesus wanted, what he needed

most, were just a few friends who would keep him company during his agony in the garden.

But they fell asleep and abandoned him and he was left all alone. Because Jesus is eternal, he is still in the garden all alone.

You and I can go there at any moment. Sit down with him. Keep him company and

console his sorrowful heart. It only takes an act to the will to say Jesus I'm entering the

Garden of Gisemone to be with you.

Jesus, I can't change your suffering,

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