The Agony of Jesus

By: St. Padre Pio

Narrated by: Joe Hunninghake

A true treasure of spiritual insights, this little book contains the remarkable meditations on The Agony of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane by St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the stigmatist priest.

One of his few writings, this short book contains Padre Pio's beautiful and descriptive manner of writing, providing a wonderful spiritual insight into that last night of Jesus' human life.

Excerpt:

Jesus has returned to His place of prayer, and another picture, more terrible than the first, presents itself to Him. All our sins with their entire ugliness parade before Him in every detail. He must clothe Himself with this entire unclean mass of human corruption and present Himself before the sanctity of His Father, to expiate everything with individual pains, to render Him all that glory of which they have robbed Him, to cleanse that human cesspool in which man wallows with contemptible indifference.

And all this does not make Him retreat. As a raging sea this mass inundates Him, enfolds Him, oppresses Him. Behold Him before His Father the God of Justice, facing the full penalty of divine justice. He, the essence of purity, sanctity by nature, in contact with sin, indeed, as if He Himself had become a sinner! Who can fathom the disgust that He feels in His innermost spirit? The horror He feels? The nausea, the contempt He senses so vividly? And having taken all upon Himself, nothing excepted, He is crushed by this immense weight, oppressed, thrown down, prostrated. Exhausted, He groans beneath the weight of Divine Justice, before His Father, Who has permitted His Son to offer Himself as a Victim for sin, as one accursed.

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the depth of understanding

I love the way Padre Pio explained the depth of love my lord has for us. It helps me to draw closer to my lord through meditation and understanding. ohh, how beautiful😓

Soul Changing

Needed for a deeper prayer life. Padre Pio knew what the agony of Jesus meant to Him and to us all.

Yep, very good

definitely worth the purchase, a great addition to meditating on the sorrows of Jesus, thank you!

Story

This book took me to deeper in my love of Christ. I will listen again.

Keep this and use it

This is really Fantastic to use for prayer and contemplation during Adoration. Pray for the world.