The experience of anguish (Sr. Bernadette Reis)

     I can connect most intimately with Jesus is through my own human experience. I do not know his experience. But I know my own. And that is where I can meet Jesus, who also went through the experience of anguish — whose sweat in the Garden of Gethsemane and the few words he managed to gasp out were the way he shared what he was going through with his father. Because Jesus, as God and man, experienced the gamut of human experience and emotion, I can meet him there. It is common ground. 

--Sr. Bernadette Reis, FSP

Image source: Luca Giordano, The Agony in the Garden. For a fascinating analysis of this painting by Fr. Blake Britton, visit https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/blog/beholding-beauty-giordanos-agony-in-the-garden/23466/ 

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