Jesus teaches us so much in  his suffering and death on the Cross. In this meditation we use the events from his prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, through his death on Mount Calvary, to his Resurrection on Easter Sunday to consider some of these lessons:

• • • Our weakness, like that of Peter, in denying Christ through sin
    • The importance of prayer to avoid falling in temptation
    • The value of our penances, when we consider Christ’s scourging and crowning with thorns
    • Christ’s fortitude in rising again after his three falls
    • His love in suffering on the Cross when they were tempting him to come down
    • Christ’s gift to us of his Mother to be our own
    • Christ’s Resurrection, which follows his suffering and our own