Prayer to Jesus in the Garden of Olives (after St. Pio)

O Jesus, who in the abundance of Your love and to overcome our hardness of heart pour forth a stream of grace upon those who contemplate Your most holy suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane and promote devotion to it, I beg You, help my soul and my heart often, yet at least once a day, to think of Your most bitter anguish in the Garden of Olives, to pity You and unite myself with You as far as possible.

O blessed Jesus, who in that night took upon Yourself the enormous burden of our sins and made perfect reparation, grant me the surpassing gift of perfect loving contrition for my numerous sins, for which You sweat blood.

O blessed Jesus, for the sake of Your fiercest struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane, grant me final victory over temptations, especially over those to which I am most subject.

O suffering Jesus, for the sake of Your inscrutable and ineffable agony for us, in that night of betrayal and bitterest anguish of soul, enlighten me, that I may recognize and fulfill Your will, and grant that I may always think again of Your harrowing struggle, and contemplate how You bore it victoriously, in order to fulfill not Your own but the Father’s will.

Grant, O Jesus, that all who lovingly contemplate You on the Cross may also remember Your immeasurable sufferings in the Garden of Olives, that following Your example they may learn to pray well and fight victoriously, so as to glorify You eternally in heaven one day. Amen.

After St. Pio. Imprimatur: Fabiano, September 23, 1963 † Macarius, Bishop.