Lent 2025 Day 36 "Not my will but yours be done"

Luke 22: 39-53

Christ, whose custom was to retreat to the garden and pray.

There you would invite vulnerability, open yourself to struggle, and not hide from your pain. When your peace was shattered, your friendship betrayed, and violence erupted all around, you remained open, in communion with the ground of your being; a still point of light and love in a breaking world.

Come, join us in our times of struggle; help us to stay awake to the needs of our world, to the needs of all those who are breaking, to our own brokenness. Help us discover that in you, there is always a place of healing, where humanity and divinity coincide.

Because you are with us, still at prayer, meeting our weakness with compassion, waiting in the garden of our heart, encouraging us to watch and pray with you.

Amen.

To find out more about this fresco and Giotto who painted it please click HERE