Once again, for Lent 2021 Scoop will be publishing a serialisation of Katya Rivas’s “The Passion”. To order a video
about Katya’s work visit apleatohumanity.com
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
Katya Rivas' Passion: Jesus Prepares Himself
Extract 3
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.
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Katya Rivas' Passion : Jesus Prays in the Garden
Extract 4
Jesus
Nobody really believes that I perspired blood that night at Gethsemane, and few believe that I suffered much more in
those hours than in the Crucifixion. It was more painful because it was clearly revealed to Me that the sins of everyone
were made Mine and that I should answer for each one.
Thus I, being innocent and pure, answered to the Father as if I were really guilty of dishonesty and of all the
impurities committed by you, My brothers. You dishonor God who created you to be instruments of the greatness of
Creation and not to stray from the nature given you with the purpose of gradually taking that nature to lead you to
behold the pure vision of Me, your Creator.
Therefore, I was made thief, murderer, adulterer, liar, a sacrilegious person, blasphemer, slanderer, and rebel to the
Father whom I have always loved.
It was precisely this contrast between My Love for the Father and His Will that caused My perspiration of blood. But I
obeyed until the end and for Love of everyone, I covered Myself with the guilt so that I could do My Father’s Will and
save you from eternal damnation.
Consider how many more than human agonies I had that night and, believe Me, nobody could alleviate such anguish because,
on the contrary, I was seeing how each one of you devoted yourself to making my death cruel at every moment that was
given to Me because of the offenses whose penalty I have paid in full. I want it to be known once again how I loved all
men at that hour of abandonment and sadness without name….
†
(continuing)
EDITOR’S NOTES: Once again for Lent 2021 Scoop is 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.. To order a video about
Katya’s work visit… apleatohumanity.com
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