CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER II. The Evening of our Lord's Life on Earth. Scene 1. Lazarus sick at Bethany II. Beyond the Jordan, where Jesus is preach- III. Bethany, The Stone of Conference V. The House of Caiphas and the Road to it VIII. TUESDAY MORNING. The Road from IX. Tuesday morning. The Temple X. The Council Chamber in the Palace of the XI. The Portico of the Temple. Tuesday in XII. Our Lord's last Public Discourse. Tuesday PART II. THE WATCHES OF THE SACRED PASSION. Chapter VI. THE FIRST NIGHT WATCH, 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. Scene I. The Guest Room. The Pasch 311 II. The usual Family Supper 327 III. The Washing of the Feet 339 IV. Preparation for the Blessed Eucharist - 377 > Scene V. The Apartment where our Lady and the Devout Women have eaten the Pasch VI. From the Guest Room to the Sanctuary CHAPTER VII. THE SECOND NIGHT WATCH, 9 P.M. to midnight. Scene I. The Way to Gethsemani IV. The Stone by the Grotto. The Three Disciples 603 CHAPTER VIII. THE THIRD NIGHT WATCH, midnight to 3 A.M. Scene I. Gethsemani. The Traitor THE WATCHES OF THE SACRED PASSION, WITH BEFORE AND AFTER. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. Do this, our Blessed Lord said on the last night of His life on earth, Do this for a commemoration of Me (St. Luke xxii.), that is, do this in remembrance of Me. His dying wish, then, is to be remembered by us. His parting request to us is, “ Remember Me”. The Blessed Eucharist is instituted, and the Holy Mass established, to be the sacrifice to the Lord by ordinance, continual and everlasting (Ezech. xlvi. 14), in order that we may remember our Blessed Lord and not forget Him. Forget not the kindness of thy Surety, for He hath given His life for thee, is a word addressed to us by the Holy Ghost (Ecclus. xxix. 19). We are touched by the pathetic appeal of holy Joseph to his fellow-prisoner, the king's chief butler, now set free and about to leave the prison : Only remember me, when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison : for I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon (Genesis xl.). Immeasurably more earnest and more moving is the appeal of our Blessed Lord to us from the tabernacle, Remember Me, only remember Me, for without any fault do I lie here forgotten in this prison. Only remember Me when it shall be well with thee. Yes, and also when things go ill with thee, remember Me. Only remember Me. This is the dying petition of Jesus, meek and humble of Heart. Does He ask too much of us? Is His a request too large, too bold, too hard ? |
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