I can connect most intimately with Jesus 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: Ron Yrabedra, From Eden to Gethsemane (2020), St. John’s Episcopal Church, Tallahassee, Florida, https://www.saint-john.org/ronyartwork/ Notice, in the third panel, the pomegranates, the wheat, the vine, and the thorns, all of which have significance in Jesus' last evening with his disciples. For a video of the artist’s explanation of this beautiful work, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsFtSCaYtWo
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