Evening: Psalm 44; Zechariah 1:7-17; Luke 22:39-53
Some have difficulty accepting that Jesus experienced human suffering. Today’s Gospel, though, shows Jesus suffering deep anguish: “In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.” Winston Churchill is said to have coined the phrase ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’, which a Canadian-American band took as its name. I suspect, though, that ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’ comes originally from this story about Jesus before he was crucified. Jesus’s suffering was as real as ours, the rest of his fellow-humans ... an expression of the solidarity of God with us
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