PRAYER FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY

 

Jesus, Our Lord,

You spent the night before

Your Passion on the Mount of Olives,

in the Garden of Gethsemane.

 

In front of Your eyes

You saw all the sins of the world

a burden which crushed You

and which pressed blood out through Your pores.

 

The apostles slept and did

not have the strength

to keep watch with You

during this hardest of hours.

 

Only Your heavenly Father

was moved and sent an angel

in order to console and strengthen

You during Your mortal anguish.