“In this drama of Jesus’ agony, of the anguish of death, of the opposition between the human will not to die and the divine will which offers itself to death, in this drama of Gethsemane the whole ...

Spending time in the Garden of Gethsemane is unlike any other experience in Israel. Nestled at the foot of the Mount of Olives, just across the Kidron Valley from the Old City, it is both beautiful ...

With so many people dying alone due to the coronavirus, they need our prayers. We can appeal to all the angels and saints — our family in heaven — to intercede and pray with us to Jesus Christ our ...

(RNS) In Gethsemane, Jesus experiences the full range of human emotions, and he shares them with his friends in a fully human way. For us, expressing sadness and fear allows us to set aside our desire ...

What Jesus’ midnight prayer in the garden tells us about cosmic conflict in the supernatural realm. “Father, if it is your will, please heal your servant; yet not our will, but yours be done.” As a ...

The Gospel of Mark (14:32, 37) recounts how Jesus and his disciples arrived at a place called Gethsemane, where He found them sleeping. This biblical episode serves as a powerful metaphor, ...

As a boy, I always loved stories about Jesus’s life, though I’ll admit they often felt distant—having happened so long ago in a land so far away. Perhaps that’s why, in 2018, I embarked on a solo ...