100. “My Father, if this (cup) cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”

“My Father, if this (cup) cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”

YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 100

Ave Maria series

100  On the Mount of Olives on the night before his death, did Jesus really experience fear of death?

Since Jesus was true man, he truly experienced fear of death on the Mount of Olives.  [612]

Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem most famous as the place where, according to the gospels, Jesus prayed and his disciples slept. ... 100

With the same human strength that we all possess, Jesus had to fight in order to consent interiorly to the Father’s will that he give his life for the life of the world.  Abandoned in his darkest hour by everyone, even his friends, Jesus managed after a struggle to say Yes.  “My Father, if this (cup) cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”  (Matthew 26:42).  476

Passion (Latin: passio=sickness, suffering): a term designating Christ’s suffering.

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The agony at Gethsemani

612 The cup of the New Covenant, which Jesus anticipated when he offered himself at the Last Supper, is afterwards accepted by him from his Father's hands in his agony in the garden at Gethsemani, (Compare Matthew 26:42; Luke 22:20.)⁴³⁴ making himself "obedient unto death". Jesus prays: "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. . ." (Philippians 2:8; Matthew 26:39; compare Hebrews 5:7-8.)⁴³⁵ Thus he expresses the horror that death represented for his human nature. Like ours, his human nature is destined for eternal life; but unlike ours, it is perfectly exempt from sin, the cause of death. (Compare Romans 5:12; Hebrews 4:15.)⁴³⁶ Above all, his human nature has been assumed by the divine person of the "Author of life", the "Living One". (Compare Acts of the Apostles 3:15; Revelation 1:17; John 1:4; Jn 5:26.)⁴³⁷ By accepting in his human will that the Father's will be done, he accepts his death as redemptive, for "he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree." (1 Peter 2:24; compare Matthew 26:42.)⁴³⁸  –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition