On the eve of the Crucifixion, Christ’s prayer to his Father was not one of desperation, but rather of total trust and abandonment, Benedict XVI stated in his weekly general audience Feb. 8, 2012.Reflecting on the prayer of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Pope stated that it’s important to understand that it wasn’t “the cry of someone who knows they've been abandoned. In this prayer of Jesus is contained total trust and abandonment into the hands of God, even when he seems to be absent, even when he appears to remain in silence, following a design that is incomprehensible to us.”“Dear friends,” he said, “in prayers let us bring our daily crosses to God, in the certainty that He is present and listens to us. Jesus' cry reminds us how in prayer we must cross the barrier of ‘self’ and of our own problems, and open ourselves to the needs and sufferings of others.“May the prayer of the dying Jesus on the Cross teach us to pray with love for so many brothers and sisters who feel the burden of daily life, who are living moments of difficulty, who are suffering, who have nary a word of comfort, that they may feel the love of God who never abandons us.”

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