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The Medallion of the Apostolate of the New Evangelization
The Passion
Reflections that Jesus makes on the mystery of His suffering and the value it has on the Redemption.
Cochabamba — Bolivia
Spanish Editions: 1996 and 1998
English 1st Edition - November 1999
Jesus Prepares Himself
Extract 2
Jesus
There are souls who consider My Passion, but very few who think about My preparation for My public life: My loneliness!
The forty days which I spent by the side of the hill were the most distressing hours of My life because I spent them
completely alone, preparing My Spirit for that which would come. I suffered hunger, thirst, discouragement, and
bitterness. I knew that for those people My sacrifice would be useless, for they would deny Me. In that solitude I
understood that neither My new doctrine nor My sacrifices and miracles could save the Jewish people who would become
God-slayers.
Nevertheless, I had to do My duty, the Divine Mission. I had to first leave My seed and die later. How sad this is,
looking at it from the human point of view!
I was also a man and felt sadness and anguish. I found Myself very alone! I mortified My Body by fasting and My Spirit
by prayer. I prayed for all humanity that would deny Me, that would sacrifice Me so many times…
I was tempted as any other mortal, and Satan was never more curious to know who the man was that remained in such
loneliness and abandonment.
Think about everything that I had to go through to save man, to be able to reign in his heart, to make possible his
entrance into My Father’s Kingdom.
EDITOR’S NOTES: Through the Christian season of Lent 2008, Scoop will be publishing a series of daily reflections on the Passion from
Bolivian author Katya Rivas. Rivas, has received an official imprimatur from the Catholic Church for several books..
Readers can sign up to recieve daily extracts from Katya Rivas's writings by email at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dailykatya/
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