JWs to Señor Raymond De Souza, KM Part III

Final snippets from The Wanderer Catholic newspaper.

Thursday, May 3, 2012.

Question:

"The next thing you'll tell me is that Jesus prayed the rosary Himself!"

Answer:

"No, not the rosary as we know it, but He made up His own rosary or prayers, saying the same thing over and over again. Yes, at one of the most crucial moments, if not the most crucial, of His life, He repeated the selfsame prayer in the Garden when He said, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me, nevertheless not as I will but as Thou wilt.  That is Matthew 26:39.

"Verse 42 reads: Again the second time, He went away and prayed, My Father, if this chalice cannot pass away unless I drink it, Thy will be done.

"And verse 44 says, So, leaving them again, He went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words over..."

Pretty cool exercise  in what we might call applied apologetics, huh? :)