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Fr. Peter turns to the second shedding of Christ’s blood: the agony in the garden, where Luke’s Gospel records that his sweat became as drops of blood. Drawing on the medical phenomenon of hematohydrosis and the theology of St. Bonaventure, Fr. Peter explores what it meant for Christ to struggle between his human and divine wills — and why that struggle was not a sign of weakness but a gift to us. He also reflects on the loneliness of Christ in the garden, so close to his disciples yet so alone, and on the beautiful insight of St. Oliver Plunkett: that it was our fear Christ carried that night, so we would not have to.

L'articolo Catechesis – The Agony in the Garden: Second of the Seven Sheddings of Christ’s Blood – Fr Peter George Flynn OFM proviene da Radio Maria.