CHAPTER I.
Jesus in the Garden of Olives.
When Jesus left the supper-room with the eleven Apostles, after the institution of the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar, his soul was deeply oppressed and his sorrow on the increase.

He led the eleven, by an unfrequented path, to the Valley of Josaphat.

As they left the house, I saw the moon, which was not yet quite at the full, rising in front of the mountain.
Our Divine Lord; as he wandered with his Apostles about the valley, told them that here he should one day return to judge the world, but not in a state of poverty and humiliation, as he then was, and that men would tremble with fear, and cry: 'Mountains, fall upon us!' His disciples did not understand him, and thought, by no means for the first time that night, that weakness and exhaustion had affected his brain.

He said to them again: 'All you shall be scandalised in me this night.

For it is written: I WILL STRIKE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE DISPERSED.