Psalm I

1. God, I have told you of my life †

you have placed my tears in your sight (Ps 55:8b-9).

2. All my enemies were planning evil [things] against me (Ps 40.8a) †

and they have taken counsel together (cf. Ps. 70:10c).

and hatred for my love (cf. Ps. 108:5).

4. In return for my love they slandered me †

but I kept praying (Ps 108:4).

5. My Holy Father, (John 17:11) king of heaven and earth, do not leave me †

since trouble is near and there is no one to help me (Ps. 21: 12).

10. Come to my help †Lord, God of my salvation (Ps. 37: 23).

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, unto the ages of ages. Amen.

　Francis speaks to us from within his saviour’s heart and speaks to us, for Him, of all the sorrows of God’s heart.

　From Gethsemane, our Saviour cried a fountain of tears to God as he placed all his sorrows in his father’s arms.

Jesus’ thoughts dart to and from the events of the last three years of his life, especially the events of the recent months.

Jesus, a man bowed down by the winds of misfortune knows that all his enemies have cooperated to bring him to this hour.

This hour when his disciples cannot watch and pray, this hour when history unravels at a kiss and time falls in to the abyss.

Though his disciples fled in fear, it is as though God himself had driven them away, for his own good purposes that the Christ might be taken. For Jesus always did his Father’s will and would not flee to save himself.

Therefore, God in man hung upon the tree until expelled in a breath that saved all humankind. That none may 　fear the second death!