V. We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you. R. Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world!
Abandoned by everyone, Jesus goes to the Father. Dark omens of death are near the lives of many people who can't see the future clearly. Jesus is with those who are beaten and do not see their hunger for justice fulfilled. We have to be with them to be with Jesus.
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Father, teach us to pray like Jesus in Gethsemane, so that we learn to share the pain and sorrow of all the wounded and fallen people of the earth until your will of love and life is accomplished.