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.