Loneliness.
Even our Lord did not want to be alone before His Passion.
"With desire I have desired to eat this pasch with you, before I suffer." (St. Luke 22,15)
He loved His disciples. In this most intimate of all Passovers, He gave them Himself; His Body and Blood, the new and everlasting Covenant.
After the Pasch, He led them to the Garden of Gethsemane where he tells Peter, James, and John, "My soul is sorrowful even unto death: stay you here, and watch with me." (St. Matthew 26, 38)
Who is able to fathom this most bitter of all sorrows, save for the Mother of our Lord? He asks His disciples, "Stay you here, and watch with Me."
No one wants to be alone in their hour of need.
Yet humanly speaking, we are abandoned all too often by human companions, and left in bitter sorrow alone.
Yet, we are never truly alone.
Jesus Christ the God-Man shares our sorrows, our sufferings, and yes, our loneliness. He of all men knows the sorrow and agony of loneliness.
Lord, forgive us for doubting Your nearness and solicitude for our souls.
Grant that we believe in Your divine caritas; that abandoned by men we may know that we are received by You, Redeemer of men and friend of sinners.
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