By Your heaviness and fear

in Gethsemane,

comfort the oppressed

and those who are afraid.

By Your loneliness,

facing the Passion

while the Apostles slept,

comfort those who face evil alone

while the world sleeps.

By Your persistent prayer,

in anguish of anticipation,

strengthen those

who shrink from the unknown.

By Your humility,

taking the comfort of angels,

give us grace to help

and to be helped by one another,

and in one another

to comfort You, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Caryll Houselander, 1901-1954, English Catholic mystic and author

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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.