S11E3: Our Garden and Our Crosses

Today's Daily Decade, for the Feast of St. Veronica of Milan and the Octave Day of the Epiphany, we offer prayers for E.P. who is in an ongoing battle with cancer and going to the hospital today for follow-up. We pray the Prayer of the Sick, taken from the middle part of the Rite of Extreme Unction. Today's reflection considers Christ in the Garden, but also all of Christ's preparatory work throughout His earthly life - preparation for His ministry, for His mission, and finally, for His Sacrifice on the Cross, and the way in which His Agony and Prayers offer us a model of constant preparation before our daily battles - and example of humility and an admonition to wakefulness in our Christian life.