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Jesus speaks: I had three things in my death. First, Faith, when I bent my knees and prayed, knowing that the Father could deliver me from my Passion. Second, Hope, when I waited so constantly, and said: Not as I will. Third, Charity, when I said: Thy will be done. I had, too, anguish of body and the natural fear of my Passion, when the blood issued from my body. Let not my friends then tremble as if abandoned, when tribulation comes upon them; I showed them m myself that weak flesh always shrinks from trouble. But you may ask, How did a bloody sweat issue from my body ? As the blood of the sick man is dried and consumed in all his members, so my blood was consumed by the natural fear of death. Finally, my Father wishing to show the way by which heaven should be opened and excluded man enter in, out of love delivered me lip to the Passion, that by accomplishing it, my body might be glorified. For in justice, my humanity could not enter glory without passion, although I